
Features
- More than “Map Porn”? The Pleasures and Pitfalls of the Historical Gaze
Robert K. Nelson | Oct 1, 2014
- Trees in a Forest of Knowledge: From Page to Pixel in Manuel Lima's The Book of Trees
Jacob Soll | Oct 1, 2014
- More than One
Julia Brookins | Oct 1, 2014
- The Find a Grave Assignment: An Experiment in Fostering Collaboration in the Classroom
Angela Firkus | Oct 1, 2014
- Historians Writing Collaboratively
Bridget Maria Chesterton | Oct 1, 2014
- Writing The Historian’s Macroscope in Public
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart | Oct 1, 2014
On the Cover
Inspired by Jacob Soll’s review of Manual Lima’s The Book of Trees, we found dozens of examples of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge from a range of cultures and traditions. Trees convey connections between earthy and celestial knowledge, taxonomies built around a strong central core, and, increasingly in the digital age, complex relationships and hierarchies. The tree that appears in this window screen of the Sidi Sayed mosque in Ahmedabad, India, was made in 1573. The mosque, still in use today, was built near the Sabarmati River in the Gujarat region. In Islamic traditions, the tree encompasses all. The Sufi author Ibn Al-‘Arabi named one of his treatises Shajarat Al-Kawn (The Universal Tree). This tree is imagined to be “at the navel of the earth, whose roots go down to the deepest reaches of the underworld, whose branches extend to embrace east and west, and whose topmost branches penetrate to the highest heaven. . . . The Prophet Muhammad is concerned with the root of this Tree, but also with its fruits, and with the Tree of Life mentioned in Sura XXIV, 35, the blessed olive tree,” writes Arthur Jeffery in “Ibn Al-‘Arabi’s Shajarat Al-Kawn” (Studia Islamica 10 [1959], pp. 43-77). The photo on the cover was taken by Hardik Trivedi, and has Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA 3.0. The photo to the left was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user Bgag, with license CC-BY-SA 3.0.
From the President
- Retirement as a Stage in the Academic Life Cycle
Jan Goldstein | Oct 1, 2014
From the Executive Director
- The “Proper Study of History”: What the Public Thinks about Historical Thinking
James Grossman | Oct 1, 2014
From the Vice Presidents
- Why I Belong to the AHA
Philippa Levine | Oct 1, 2014
News
- People’s Histories of the United Arab Emirates: Creating Archives and Oral Histories in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Shatha Almutawa | Oct 1, 2014
- Department Specializations and the History Major: What We Learned from the AHA’s 2014–15 Directory
Allen Mikaelian | Oct 1, 2014
Advocacy
- Historical Organizations React to the AP US History Debate
Lee White | Oct 1, 2014
- The AHA Supports the Revised Framework for the US AP History Exam
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
- AHA Supports the Durbin Bill to Expand Student Loan Forgiveness Program to Adjunct Faculty
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
- An Open Letter to Chancellor Wise of the University of Illinois
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
AHA Activities
- AHA Welcomes New Staff Member
Julia Brookins | Oct 1, 2014
- Career Diversity Project Update
Julia Brookins | Oct 1, 2014
- What’s in the October AHR?
Robert A. Schneider | Oct 1, 2014
- Nominations Invited for AHA Offices, Terms Beginning January 2016
Sharon K. Tune | Oct 1, 2014
- AHA Council Approves Statement on Diversity in AHA Nominations and Appointments
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
Digital Dispatches
- Linking the Past: History and the Semantic Web
Seth Denbo | Oct 1, 2014
Career Paths
- Launching Pad—PhD, Target—TBD
Robert Oxnam | Oct 1, 2014
AHA Annual Meeting
- Welcome To New York 2015
Andrew W. Robertson | Oct 1, 2014
- Make Plans to Attend the 129th Annual Meeting in New York City: Some Useful Reminders
Sharon K. Tune | Oct 1, 2014
- 2015 Hotel and Rate Information
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
- 2015 Information and Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities
Sharon K. Tune | Oct 1, 2014
- Child Care for the 2015 Annual Meeting
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
- 2015 Tours Organized by the Local Arrangements Committee
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
- 2015 Annual Meeting Registration Fees
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
- 2015 Dates and Deadlines
AHA | Oct 1, 2014
In Memoriam
- Felix Armfield: 1963-2014
Andrew Nicholls | Oct 1, 2014
- Ivan Avakumovic: 1926–2014
Allan Smith | Oct 1, 2014
- Paul F. Boller Jr.: 1916–2014
Kenneth Stevens | Oct 1, 2014
- Dennis Dale Cordell: 1947–2013
Martin Klein | Oct 1, 2014
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler: 1931–2014
James J. Sheehan | Oct 1, 2014
Endnote
- Visualizing and Collaborating
Allen Mikaelian | Oct 1, 2014