Archives

  • AHA Member Spotlight: E. Natalie Rothman

    Matthew Keough | Jul 2, 2020

    E. Natalie Rothman is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto, Canada, and has been a member since 2004. 
  • Archiving a Plague Year

    Tom Beazley, Victoria Cain, and Rebecca S. Wingo | Jun 29, 2020

    A crowdsourced digital public archive is chronicling daily life during COVID-19.
  • Peer-to-Peer Research Exchange

    Ashley E. Bowen | Jun 10, 2020

    SHAFR created a peer-to-peer archival record exchange to help historians during COVID-19.
  • Exhibiting the Past

    James Grossman | Mar 9, 2020

    The AHA wrote to the Archivist of the United States, objecting to the alteration of a photograph on display, and the archivist responded.
  • History by Text and Thing

    ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball | Feb 26, 2020

    Are we doing research wrong? ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball wonders if we should ask so much from our students and ourselves before we get into the archives.
  • Interrogating the Archive

    MJ Maynes and Leslie Morris | Dec 9, 2019

    Faculty at the University of Minnesota incorporated university debates over institutional history into their international graduate course.
  • Secrecy Prevails as Declassification Slows

    Allison Miller | Nov 19, 2019

    A stinging new report details problems and potential solutions in getting the history of US foreign relations to the public.
  • Townhouse Notes

    Seth Denbo | Oct 25, 2019

    Without the National Archives and Records Administration, access to the sources that historians require would be impossible, but NARA is underfunded and undervalued.
  • Making a People’s History

    Acadia Roher | Sep 16, 2019

    Documenting grassroots organizing in the South, a graduate student helps bridge generational divides. 
  • Archives and the Road to Accessibility

    Angela Gallagher | Jul 15, 2019

    Much historical research requires visits to archives. An inclusive discipline will seek to expand accommodation of disabilities, for everyone's benefit. 

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