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Kritika Agarwal, associate editor, publications

Featured Articles

August 24, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Hero, Villain, or Anti-Hero? Archival Records and Dealing with the Contradictions of the Past

August 3, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Scalawags and Scandal-Mongers: Intra-party Rivalry and the Complex World of Reconstruction Politics
The William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson is home to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History

July 12, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Adapt and Overcome: What to Do When Your Archival Research Hits a Dead End

June 21, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Madness and a Thousand Reconstructions: Learning to Embrace the Messiness of the Past

August 10, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Historical Hat-Trick: Using Documents, Architecture, and Archaeology at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
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July 20, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

The Other Drayton Hall: South Carolina Plantation Architecture in the Documentary Record
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June 29, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Change over Time Written in the Historic Architecture of Barbados
Manor home of Shirley Plantation, Virginia's oldest plantation, founded in 1613 in Charles City, Virginia. In her research, Holmes compares the evolution of the plantation house in Virginia, South Carolina, and Barbados. Credit: Library of Congress

June 8, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Visiting the Past and the Places in Between: Buildings and Landscapes as Historical Documents
The Venetians’ principal trade routes with the Mamluks linked the port cities of Alexandria and Beirut to Europe. Map courtesy of Google

August 17, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Searching for the Quotidian in the Archives
Brass box with cover, possibly Egyptian—such containers may have been used to ship luxury goods to Europe. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

July 27, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

The Gift Thieves
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July 6, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

The Politics of Pepper
Venetian embassy to the Mamluks in Damascus in 1511, workshop of Giovanni Bellini.

June 15, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Cultural Encounters and Material Exchanges in the Venetian Archives

From the AHA

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June 28, 2016

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Oxford University Press to Distribute AHA Publications
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June 23, 2016

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

2016 AHA Research Grant Winners
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June 22, 2016

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

AHA Announces 2016 Career Diversity for Historians Departmental Grants
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June 2, 2016

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Announcing the Winners of the 2016 AHA Today Blog Contest
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June 1, 2016

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Career Diversity Five Skills: Digital Literacy
Letter Protesting the Persecution of Turkish Scholars

July 25, 2016

Perspectives Daily

AHA Endorses Scholars at Risk Statement on Turkey
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July 18, 2016

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Now That’s What I Call History: Introducing the AHA Summer Mixtape

August 23, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Teaching with #DigHist: Introducing a New Series on Using Digital Projects in the Classroom

Other Articles

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June 30, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Rick L. Woten
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June 16, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Laura Schlosberg
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June 10, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight Eric G. E. Zuelow
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June 3, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Lauren Apter Bairnsfather
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July 28, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Lance R. Blyth
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July 21, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Mark Andersen
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July 14, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Alex Zukas
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July 7, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spolight: Alan Berolzheimer
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August 31, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Carin Berkowitz
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August 25, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Eric Zolov
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August 18, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Nathalie Belkin
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August 11, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Kibibi V. Mack-Shelton
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August 4, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Richard A. Baker
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August 16, 2016

Career Paths, Perspectives Daily

What I Do: Stephanie Young
Wooden bridge against a background of green trees.

August 2, 2016

Career Paths, Perspectives Daily

What I Do: Ramona Houston
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June 13, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Historians in the News

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June 28, 2016

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

Teaching the End of Empire
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June 27, 2016

From the National History Center

The Aftertaste of Empire
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June 24, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb
Washington, DC - May 19: Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and today reflect on African American political activism in the last half-century, putting recent struggles in the broader context of black peopleÕs long demand for equality, which began in the holds of slave ships and survived the nadir of segregation and disenfranchisement. Friday, May 19, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leah L. Jones For National Museum of African American History and Culture)

June 20, 2016

Perspectives on Culture

African American History
leads a public tour at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City.

June 14, 2016

Career Paths

Who’s Afraid of Being a Generalist?
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June 7, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Outer Space Exploration in Divided Germany
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June 6, 2016

Perspectives Daily

The Rise of Dalit Studies and Its Impact on the Study of India: An Interview with Historian Ramnarayan Rawat
President Nixon meets with President Mobutu Seko of Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo) in the Oval Office in October 1973. Source: Wikimedia Commons

July 26, 2016

Conflict in Africa
US secretary of state John Kerry meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping in July 2014. Credit: US Department of State. Credit: Flickr

July 19, 2016

America’s Quest to Change China
Augusta Savage at work on her famous sculpture, The Harp, commissioned by the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. New York Public Library Digital Collections

July 13, 2016

Perspectives on Culture

Far from the Harlem Crowd
"Clio" by Hendrik Goltzius, 1558-1617, currently held by the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Clio is the muse of history.

July 11, 2016

Career Paths

Changing Course
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July 5, 2016

Perspectives Daily

The Surprisingly Short History of American Secrecy
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July 1, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Drug Traffickers and the Freedom of Information Act
L0035431 A 19th century stethoscope witha bell-shaped end Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk https://wellcomeimages.org A 19th century stethoscope with a bell-shaped end and a flexable tubing for both ears. Made by Scott Alison Photograph c. 1858 Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

August 30, 2016

Career Paths, Perspectives Daily

Thinking Like a Historian in Scrubs
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August 29, 2016

Trans-ing History on the Web: The Digital Transgender Archive

August 22, 2016

Welfare Reform and the Politics of Race

August 15, 2016

How the Culture of “Welfare Reform” Changed the US Army

August 9, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Historians Leading the Way to the Future of PhD Education

August 9, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Mapping Indigenous LA: Uncovering Native Geographies through Digital Storytelling

August 8, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Thanks, Prohibition! How the Eighteenth Amendment Fueled America’s Taste for Ice Cream

August 3, 2016

Perspectives Daily

James Baldwin on History

August 1, 2016

A Historian in the Stacks