History of STEM

  • Announcing the 2023–24 NASA Fellows

    Rebecca L. West | Jun 5, 2023

    AHA awards annual NASA fellowships to early career scholars.
  • Thinking Machines

    E. Thomas Ewing, Landon Downer, Patrick Luppino, and Victor Mukora | Apr 10, 2023

    How do you teach the history of computing in the age of artificial intelligence?
  • Held

    Lauren MacIvor Thompson | Mar 16, 2023

    Public discussions often fail to acknowledge the nuance of abortion’s history, a fact made painfully clear in last year's US Supreme Court decision.
  • The Philadelphia Lazaretto

    David Barnes | Dec 28, 2022

    Quarantine at the Lazaretto met many migrants when they arrived in 19th-century Philadelphia.
  • Looking Back

    Mark Philip Bradley | Dec 27, 2022

    The latest AHR features the 1619 Project, W. E. B. Du Bois, transnational history, and the history of ideas.
  • The Short Telescope

    Simon P. Newman | Oct 27, 2022

    American universities are not the only ones who must confront legacies of the slave trade.
  • Bodies of Knowledge

    Samuel J. Redman | Sep 15, 2022

    Museums that hold collections of human remains from the past face ethical questions today.
  • Immigration, Wartime Trauma, and Planetary Science

    Rebecca L. West | Aug 25, 2022

    Read about the 2022–23 recipients of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History, the Fellowship in Aerospace History, and...
  • From Bath Riots to Blocking Asylum

    Arabella Delgado | Aug 15, 2022

    US border restrictions during COVID-19 reflect a long history of policing migrants for disease.
  • The Better Roe

    Kara Dixon Vuic | Aug 10, 2022

    When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light. 

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