Professional Resources

  • Every Historian Counts

    Emily Swafford and Dylan Ruediger | Jul 9, 2018

    We broke down employment trends by gender, field specialization, department, and more. You can too.
  • History Education in Finland

    Darcy R. Fryer | May 17, 2018

    Curious about how history education in Finland, Darcy R. Fryer, a history teacher from the Brearley School, visited some classes...
  • Making Historians in the Archive

    Christina Copland | May 14, 2018

    Archival research, which often requires visiting depositories around the globe, plays a major role in shaping our identity as historians....
  • Reimagining the History Survey Course

    Steven Mintz | Apr 23, 2018

    Faculty members at universities across the country are experimenting with new models for history survey courses and different approaches to...
  • Spring Cleaning Tip #1

    Christina Copland | Apr 9, 2018

    Success in academia, writes Christina Copland, is often unrelated to the merits of one's scholarship. Yet, the meritocracy myth encourages graduate students to think otherwise.
  • History 101: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

    Paulina L. Alberto and Farina Mir | Apr 2, 2018

    Several years ago, the history department at the University of Michigan—anticipating the effects of ...
  • Letter to a Prospective History Graduate Student

    Christina Copland | Mar 5, 2018

    Christina Copland advises prospective history graduate students to think carefully about what they can do from day one to get...
  • The Graduate

    Christina Copland | Feb 5, 2018

    Christina Copland introduces The Graduate, a new series on AHA Today providing space for a productive dialogue about graduate student life.
  • Points of Interest

    Lendol Calder | Jan 12, 2018

    One of the most widely used strategies to increase participation in class discussions is an activity...
  • Never Too Far Away

    Susan Rhoades Neel | Jan 12, 2018

    Student engagement is a particularly difficult challenge in history courses offered through Utah Sta...
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