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Ashley E. Bowen, editor
Laura Ansley, managing editor
Karen Lou, editorial assistant
Alana Venable, research and publications assistant
Alexandra F. Levy, digital communications coordinator
Liz Townsend, manager, data administration and integrity

Featured Articles

HRA staff used USGS topographical maps like this one to investigate when airfields were constructed in a remote part of Alaska.

June 2, 2021

Features, Perspectives Daily

Remote Reflections: Rethinking Historical Consulting During the Pandemic

June 24, 2021

Features, Perspectives Daily

Remote Reflections: The Show Must Go On for Undergraduate Research
Two children wearing colorful masks hug while facing the camera.

August 3, 2021

Features, Perspectives Daily

Remote Reflections: Balancing Roles and Growing through the Pandemic
After a career in journalism, PhD candidate asked many questions about the nature of sources in his coursework, teaching, and writing.

July 6, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

You Are Only as Good as Your Sources
A statue of a nun on a plinth, with her arms outspread and holding a cross in her left hand

July 8, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

What Story Do You Want to Tell?
Panama Disease is a wilting disease impacting bananas that is caused by a soil-borne fungal pathogen.

July 12, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Can Plants Help Us to Understand COVID-19?
Blocks with the letters B L O G, in front of a fountain pen.

July 28, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

What’s Next for Blogging as Public Engagement?
Woodcut image of a village, with several buildings. In the street, a man is surrounded by about a dozen people. Two people look onto the scene from a window above.

July 29, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
A color photograph of the interior of a greenhouse. Small green sprouts are in the foreground and white plastic roofing is visible in the background.

August 5, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

We Are Part of Nature

From the AHA

A fountain pen writing a letter.

June 7, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Meet the 2021 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists
Stars and comets across dark sky

June 1, 2021

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Announcing the 2021–22 Jameson and NASA Fellows

Other Articles

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June 8, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Thomas Figueira
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June 15, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Donald L. Fixico
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June 29, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Bruce Bennett
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July 13, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Damayanthie Eluwawalage
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July 20, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Mark L. Howe
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July 27, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Barbara L. Tischler
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August 13, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Luca de Caprariis
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August 27, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Samuel Yamashita

News

Museums

June 9, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

History Museums Are Vibrant Civic Spaces
A new report from Ithaka S+R found that history instructors need to collaborate with librarians, archivists, and publishers to help students master the skills required to find and use primary sources.

June 14, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

From Reading to Discovery
Hungarian Fulbright

June 16, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

One Year Abroad, A Decade of Friendship and Collaboration
Juneteenth celebrations, like this 1980 event in Seattle, are sacred spaces and should be honored accordingly.

June 22, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

A Juneteenth Dilemma
A mural depicting Fred Hampton, subject of the film Judas and the Black Messiah, photographed in Chicago in 1989.

June 30, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

History Lessons on Film
Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Self-Portrait Etching at a Window,” 1648.

July 13, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

Autobiography with Scholarly Trimmings
While in Finland, ’s husband wrote an article about “following your Fulbrighter” for the Fulbright Center News.

July 19, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

Navigating Life from Scratch
The 1940 Tokyo Summer Olympics are sometimes referred to as the “Phantom Olympics” in Japan.

July 21, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

The Phantom Olympics
Drawing of a machine called the Label O Matic, with the word complexity going into the machine and the words “50-100 words,” coming out. The sentence, “I turn complicated ideas into tiny chunks of text,” is above the machine.

July 26, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

Public History in the Wild
Hand-cyclists competing at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia.

August 23, 2021

News, Perspectives Daily

Paralympic Pioneer