To the Editor: It is certainly past time to erect memorials to the enslaved people who built so many institutions of higher learning, but I was appalled at how Jody Lynn Allen simply brushed aside the...

John W. Shy, professor emeritus of history at the University of Michigan and a leading authority on Anglo-American military history, died on April 8, 2022, in his 91st year.

To the Editor: Carl Abbott’s “The Age of Planetary Revolution” (December 2022) reminded me of “Scorched Supper on New Niger,” a short story by Suzy McKee Charnas. Though the story is a conventional on...

Find out what the AHA Council was up to in the second half of 2022.

This Long Overdue tribute honors historian Liu Kwang-Ching, who died on September 28, 2006.

The tree has become an essential symbol of college life.

Susan Ferentinos is a self-employed public history researcher, writer, and consultant. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington, and has been a member since 2016.

Historians visited the City of Brotherly Love for four days of discussions on a variety of topics.

On January 5, 2023, the AHA Council approved the Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship.

AHA staff is excited to announce the winner of the AHA Slogan Contest. Members and other historians submitted dozens of witty slogans, and AHA23 attendees voted on their favorite. The winner of the S...