Grooves for the People

The 2018 AHA annual meeting will take place this January in our global hometown of Washington, DC. To persuade you to register, we’ll present a series of stories on our favorite DC-related things. Up first: the infectious funk of go-go, a uniquely DC musical style that’s been a longtime backdrop to African American life in the “Chocolate City.” The mural pictured depicts DC’s “Godfather of Go-Go,” Chuck Brown.

Photo: Mark Thomas/Courtesy DC Murals

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Staff

Allison Miller, editor
Kritika Agarwal, associate editor, publications
Stephanie Kingsley, associate editor, web content and social media
Zoë Jackson, editorial assistant
Liz Townsend, coordinator, data administration and integrity

Featured Articles

University of California, Los Angeles. Rictor Norton & David Allen

September 1, 2017

Features

Decline in History Majors Continues, Departments Respond
Hood College's outdoor classroom served as Caribbean islands in Jay Harrison's Latin American history class. Courtesy Hood College

September 1, 2017

Features

Physical Education
A Klan gathering c. 1925, location unknown. National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress

September 1, 2017

Viewpoints

What Do We Mean by Populism?
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September 1, 2017

Career Paths

History, Indians, and Business

From the AHA

The AHA Townhouse

September 1, 2017

From the Editor

On Our New Look
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September 1, 2017

From the Executive Director

A Time for Renewal
A modern Michelangelo: At the 2011 European Parliament Open Days, Brussels. © European Union 2011 PE-EP/Pietro Naj-Oleari CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

September 1, 2017

From the President

A Continent Among Continents
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September 1, 2017

AHA Activities

2017–18 Jameson and NASA Fellowships Awarded
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September 1, 2017

AHA Activities

Actions by the AHA Council, January–June 2017
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September 1, 2017

AHA Activities

Donors to the Association, July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017
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September 1, 2017

AHA Activities

2017 AHA Election Results
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September 19, 2017

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

AHA Welcomes Jill Wharton as Visiting Fellow
March 2023 stack

September 15, 2017

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Peer Review at the AHR

September 7, 2017

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

We Redesigned Our Magazine
Career Diversity for Historians

September 11, 2017

AHA Activities

Imagining a “Job Market” Beyond Supply and Demand
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September 1, 2017

News

Advocacy Briefs, September 2017
Maria Miller, Ernesto Zelaya, and Eric B. Ricks work on MANY VOICES MANY BEATS ONE CITY, depicting go-go culture. Cory L. Stowers and Art B.L.O.C DC/Courtesy D.C. Murals

September 1, 2017

AHA Annual Meeting

Grooves for the People
AHA 2020 - New York, NY - January 4, 2020

September 1, 2017

AHA Annual Meeting

On to Washington, DC: The 2018 Annual Meeting at a Glance

Other Articles

September 28, 2017

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

Is Civilian Control of the Military Eroding?
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September 27, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ikuko Asaka
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September 20, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Joseph Reidy
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September 12, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Harry Suwanto
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September 5, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Pamela Sodhy
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September 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

On “Academic Presses Explore Open Access for Monographs”
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September 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

On “History is Not a Useless Major”
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September 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

On History and a Free Society
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September 1, 2017

In Memoriam

Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017)
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September 1, 2017

In Memoriam

Bruce Fetter (1938–2017)
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September 1, 2017

In Memoriam

Blanche M. G. Linden (1946–2014)

News

White Trader with Ojibwa Trappers, 1820. This watercolor painting by an anonymous artist shows an Ojibwa hunting party meeting with a white fur trader. Among other objects, the Ojibwa carry guns. With permission of the Royal Ontario Museum © ROM.

September 1, 2017

News

A World of Weapons
Credit cards, which allow consumers to carry interest-generating balances, illustrate what Lauer calls the “monetizing logic of digital capitalism.” Nick Youngson/CC BY SA 3.0

September 1, 2017

News

“FICO First, Then Sex”
Can history accommodate nontraditional modes of review and publication? Wikimedia Commons

September 26, 2017

News, Perspectives Daily

Peer-Reviewing Digital Scholarship

September 25, 2017

AHA Online

Blending Local and Spatial History

September 17, 2017

News

Memory and Medicine