Social History

  • Trading on Justice

    Mark Philip Bradley | Feb 22, 2023

    The latest AHR issue includes slavery and reparations, histories of the 19th century, and new approaches to transnational history.
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

    David Levering Lewis | Dec 6, 2022

    This Long Overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.
  • Richard Herr (1922–2022)

    Martin Jay and Paula Fass | Nov 30, 2022

    Richard Herr, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, died on May 29, 2022.
  • Elizabeth York Enstam (1937–2022)

    Michael V. Hazel | Nov 30, 2022

    Elizabeth York Enstam died September 15, 2022, in Dallas, Texas, where she had lived for the past 54 years.
  • The Age of Planetary Revolution

    Carl Abbott | Nov 14, 2022

    Nothing dates our vision of the future like how we remember the past.
  • R. Keith Schoppa (1943–2022)

    Thomas R. Pegram, Elizabeth Schmidt, and Matthew Mulcahy | Oct 31, 2022

    R. Keith Schoppa, professor emeritus at Loyola University Maryland, died on June 27, 2022.
  • The Short Telescope

    Simon P. Newman | Oct 27, 2022

    American universities are not the only ones who must confront legacies of the slave trade.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Monica J. Stenzel

    Matthew Keough | Oct 21, 2022

    Monica J. Stenzel is a history instructor and the director of the Sustainability Center at Spokane Falls Community College. She...
  • Art as Historical Method

    Mark Philip Bradley | Oct 11, 2022

    Identity, colonial legacies, and recovering knowledge are all showcased in the latest issue of the AHR.
  • Louis E. Wilson (1939–2022)

    Daniel Horowitz | Sep 30, 2022

    Louis E. Wilson, historian of Africa and African Americans, died on July 10, 2022. 

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