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Building a Foundation for the Future: 2016 Equity Award Winner Al Camarillo
March 1, 2017
This interview is the first in a two-part series featuring AHA Equity Award winners Albert Camarillo (Stanford Univ.) and the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. The question...
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Not Just for Graduate Students: Faculty and Career Diversity for Historians
March 1, 2017
How can I share your stories and experiences with my students?” At many other sessions at the AHA annual meeting, this might have been an unremarkable question for a faculty member to pose. But at thi...
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Diversity and Segregation: Progress and Challenges in the Struggle for an Inclusive Historical Community
March 10, 2017
As part of a 2013 AHA Roundtable in Perspectives about the Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which upheld affirmative action in university admissions, Jonathan Zimmerman...
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From Personal to Professional: Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream
April 1, 2017
In 2012, when Jacqueline Antonovich, then a first-year graduate student at the University of Michigan, founded the blog Nursing Clio, maintaining it was as simple as “throwing stuff up online.” Five y...
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Building a Foundation for the Future: 2016 Equity Award Winner: Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso
April 1, 2017
This interview is the second in a two-part series featuring AHA Equity Award winners Albert Camarillo (Stanford Univ.) and the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The q...
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Townhouse Notes April 2017
April 1, 2017
Historians’ friendships are remarkable things. They intertwine the professional with the personal, the critical with the encouraging, and revolve around a shared commitment to the past (perhaps over a...
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Happy Anniversary? Historians and the Commemoration of the Past
April 1, 2017
In French the word anniversaire means both “birthday” and “anniversary,” whereas in English the two concepts require separate words. The fact that each language approaches the relationship between the...
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Arenas, Platforms, and Megaphones: The Dynamics of AHA Advocacy
April 1, 2017
In the early morning hours of March 16, a document titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again” descended on the Internet. Within 12 hours, the AHA had dispatched a letter, r...
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Picturing Jewish Vacationland: The Borscht Belt, Then and Now
April 1, 2017
It is easy to satisfy our age-old fascination with ruins and remains these days. Photographs of crumbling factories, ghost towns, and closed-down amusement parks proliferate on the web, prompting adve...
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Advocacy Briefs: AHA Protests Detention of French Historian, Endorses March for Science
April 1, 2017
On February 28, AHA president Tyler Stovall sent a letter to the secretary of homeland security protesting the recent detention of Henry Rousso, distinguished historian of the Holocaust in France. Pro...