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Erasing the Past: The Indian Government’s Dishonest History
January 23, 2024
Textbook “rationalization” has become the primary means of erasing Muslims from India’s history.
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You Must Learn: Teaching 50 Years of Hip-Hop History
January 22, 2024
Using sources including rap lyrics, albums, and music videos and visual art like graffiti, one historian pushes his students to think historically about hip-hop culture.
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Southern Hospitality? The Abstracted Labor of the Whole Pig Roast
January 19, 2024
Barbecue is a cornerstone of American cuisine, containing all of the contradictions of the country itself.
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The Program Committee: Behind the Scenes at the AHA
January 18, 2024
How does the AHA select which sessions and posters will be included on each year’s conference program?
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The Irretrievable Past? Tracks and Residues, Imagined Sources, and the Writing of History
January 17, 2024
So much of daily life cannot be easily captured by the sources historians are most prone to use. How can our imaginations provide the tracks to evidence that can fill the gap?
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Deeply Rooted: Meet Thavolia Glymph, the 2024 AHA President
January 16, 2024
Get to know Thavolia Glymph, the 140th president of the American Historical Association.
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On "My Libraries"
January 16, 2024
To the Editor: I greatly appreciated “My Libraries: Finding a Third Place” (October 2023). As a writer and editor, in addition to being a historian, I have found that libraries can be places of refuge...
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John T. McNay (1957–2023)
January 16, 2024
John T. McNay, professor of history, passed away on October 27, 2023.
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Huzzah for the King! A Medievalist at the Renaissance Faire
January 11, 2024
A mishmash of historical periods, a Renaissance faire nevertheless provides entertainment and fun.
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Dragon Head
January 2, 2024
The dragon’s head held by the Chinese Historical Society of America represents a community’s will to survive against extreme adversity.