Perspectives Summer Columns

  • Looking Out for Each Other

    Leah Valtin-Erwin | Sep 2, 2020

    COVID-19 is just the most recent crisis to throw the grocery store employee onto the frontlines of rapid and disorienting change.
  • Counting on the Census

    Rachel Basinger | Jul 28, 2020

    Summer columnist Rachel Basinger describes how short census questionnaires stunt historical research.
  • Meet the 2020 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists

    Laura Ansley | Jun 17, 2020

    Introducing the three graduate students who will write about the US Census, digital history and pedagogy, and the history of grocery shopping this summer.
  • Want to Write for the AHA?

    AHA Staff | Mar 27, 2020

    A key skill for historians, whether they work in academia, public history, government, publishing, o...
  • Beyond Content

    Samantha Stearns | Jan 17, 2020

    An eighth grade social studies teacher reflects on how pursuing a master's degree in history has reinvigorated her work in the classroom.
  • Redistributing the Work of Public History

    Acadia Roher | Dec 23, 2019

    The Arkansas People's History Project is developing new models for engaging with and involving the community in public history.
  • Water Shortages Have a History

    James Parker | Sep 26, 2019

    Irrigating the arid countryside sounded good to British authorities in Kenya. What went wrong?
  • Making a People’s History

    Acadia Roher | Sep 16, 2019

    Documenting grassroots organizing in the South, a graduate student helps bridge generational divides. 
  • “What Changed” in Social Studies Education

    Samantha Stearns | Jul 30, 2019

    Experienced college professors often say that undergraduates' skills and knowledge base have declined over the years. Is that true?
  • Meet the 2019 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists

    Allison Miller | May 29, 2019

    Follow along as three graduate students write about their scholarship, activism, and much more!

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