Public History

  • Grant of the Week: Louise Pubols Public History Prize

    Alana Venable | May 16, 2022

    The Western History Association is now accepting applications for the Louise Pubols Public History Prize. 
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Francena Turner

    Matthew Keough | May 12, 2022

    Francena Turner is an adjunct lecturer of history at Fayetteville State University and a CLIR/Mellon Fellow and postdoctoral associate for...
  • The Future Is Now

    Justin Hawkins | Apr 21, 2022

    At AHA22, panels on video games and podcasts pushed attendees to think more broadly about sources and definitions of scholarship.
  • National History Day Unites a Community

    Mary Manning | Mar 14, 2022

    At the regional level of National History Day, it's all about community connections.
  • New Year, Fresh Look

    Mark Philip Bradley, Manuel Martinez Alvarenga, Marlena Boswell, Isti Bhattacharya, Miguel Cruz-Díaz, Justin Hawkins, Brian Quinn, and Thomas Stephens | Feb 23, 2022

    The latest issue of the journal has been completely redesigned and introduces the AHR History Lab.
  • Search Terms Up for Debate

    Tina Gross | Feb 15, 2022

    Librarians have worked to remove offensive, stigmatizing, and racist language from the Library of Congress Subject Headings for nearly a century.
  • When the Birds Go Silent

    Manuel Martinez Alvarenga, Marlena Boswell, Isti Bhattacharya, Miguel Cruz-Díaz, Justin Hawkins, Brian Quinn, and Thomas Stephens | Nov 24, 2021

    The latest issue of the AHR features articles on environmental history, African history, and digital history, among other topics.
  • The Dinner Party

    Priya Chhaya | Nov 17, 2021

    If you could invite six people from history to a dinner party, who—and how—would you choose?
  • Playing with the Past

    Patrick Rael | Oct 13, 2021

    Board games encourage history students to imagine changing historical outcomes and discuss counterfactuality and contingency, while covering the entire range of Bloom's taxonomy of learning.
  • Crisis and Opportunity

    James Grossman and Dana Schaffer | Oct 5, 2021

    A recently awarded NEH grant will enable the AHA to support dozens of small history-related organizations.

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