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A Report to Members about AHA Action on Sexual Harassment
Mary Beth Norton | Feb 16, 2018
In fall 2017, as allegations of sexual harassment flooded into public view from women (and some men)... -
No Time Like the Present
Eladio Bobadilla | Photographs by Marc Monaghan | Feb 5, 2018
Almost a year after Donald Trump’s inauguration, historians gathered in Washington, DC, just two mil... -
On Mental Health in the November 2017 Perspectives
Ross W. Beales Jr. | Jan 12, 2018
To the editor:Congratulations and many thanks to Mark Grimsley and to Lauren N. Haslem and Jennifer ... -
Townhouse Notes
Allison Miller | Dec 1, 2017
A friend sent a slightly panicked text after she’d gotten her copyedited manuscript back from the un... -
Townhouse Notes: Complicating Ourselves into Obscurity
Allison Miller | Nov 1, 2017
I devoted one of my earliest Perspectives columns to the historian’s store of clichés. One was “we m... -
Voyage to the Dark Side? The Historian as Administrator
Tyler Stovall | Nov 1, 2017
Some 30 years ago, I entered the PhD program in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my f... -
The “Third Resource”: Managing Mental Illness in Academe
Mark Grimsley | Nov 1, 2017
About one in five Americans has some form of mental illness, and this sobering figure includes acade... -
On "The Quick Rise of the Slow Professor"
Robert Zaller | Oct 1, 2017
To the editor:I am afraid that the unhurried and unpressured scholar depicted by Maggie Berg and Bar... -
The Quick Rise of The Slow Professor
Kritika Agarwal | May 1, 2017
As summer approaches, so do social media updates about not accomplishing enough work before the end ... -
From Personal to Professional: Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream
Sadie Bergen | Apr 1, 2017
In 2012, when Jacqueline Antonovich, then a first-year graduate student at the University of Michiga...
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