
Features
- The Reality of Joan of Arc
Lucy Barnhouse | Mar 16, 2020
- Visitors Welcome
John Garrison Marks | Mar 11, 2020
On the Cover
Film has had a profound impact on historical memory. Whether watching the soldiers of 1917 running through exploding fields or seeing the Civil War through the eyes of the March sisters in Little Women, Hollywood sends history students into the classroom with understandings of the past with varied levels of accuracy. In the March cover story, Lucy Barnhouse discusses how she introduces students to medieval history through film, using historic figures like Joan of Arc and Ibn Fadlan and fictional characters like Robin Hood and King Arthur to teach students how to assess the reliability of their sources—even movies. This issue also includes an assessment of Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women, which Christine Jacobson calls a “love letter” to the novel and its author. Together, these articles ask us to think more deeply about the history in the films we love.
Photo: Timothy Vollmer/Flickr/CC BY 2.0
From the Editor
- Townhouse Notes
Laura Ansley | Mar 2, 2020
From the President
- An Immodest Proposal
Mary Lindemann | Feb 24, 2020
From the Executive Director
- Exhibiting the Past
James Grossman | Mar 9, 2020
News
- A More Inclusive Discipline
Seth Denbo | Mar 13, 2020
Viewpoints
- History by Text and Thing
ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball | Feb 26, 2020
Perspectives on Culture
- Little Women
Christine Jacobson | Mar 4, 2020
AHA Activities
- AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2020
Compiled by Liz Townsend | Mar 1, 2020
In Memoriam
- Stephen Philip Cohen (1936–2019)
Jayita Sarkar | Mar 20, 2020
- Abbas Husayn Hamdani (1926-2019)
Sumaiya Hamdani | Mar 20, 2020
- Henry Horwitz (1938–2019)
Jeffrey Cox | Mar 20, 2020
- Joel H. Silbey (1933–2018)
C. Evan Stewart | Mar 20, 2020