• The New Jersey Initiative

  Hank Bitten and Peter Porter | May 1, 2015

  New Jersey has reached a turning point in its approach to history instruction. The Standards and Model Curriculum recently adopted supports content st...
• Pathogens of the Caribbean: The Prequel

  J. R. McNeill | Dec 1, 2014

  As this is my last column as an AHA vice president, it is high time I performed a public service. Here it is. Historians, look at the fine print befor...
• The AP US History Wars: Is a Peace Process Possible?

  Viewpoints

  Jonathan Burack | Dec 1, 2014

  The History Wars are back. At issue is the new framework for the Advanced Placement US history program. One recent skirmish pitted conservatives on th...
• THEMAS Is WWRN: Why STEM Students Need an H

  Peter A. Coclanis | Dec 1, 2014

  Should we be concerned that there’s no h in STEM? That history is missing out on the shift in student interest in recent years toward scientific and t...

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• An Open Letter to Chancellor Wise of the University of Illinois

  AHA | Oct 1, 2014

  The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Phyllis M. Wise, has faced a risin...
• A New Guide for Teaching in Civics, Economics, Geography, and History

  AHA Staff | Nov 1, 2013

  In collaboration with over 20 states and 15 social studies content organizations, including the AHA,...
• AHA Joins Call for Fair and Equitable Treatment of All Faculty

  AHA Staff | Mar 1, 2010

  At its January meeting, the AHA Council endorsed a new study from the Coalition on the Academic Work...
• Virginia History Teacher Named Teacher of the Year

  AHA Staff | Sep 1, 1998

  Philip Bigler, a history teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairf...