American political history has traditionally been a field that has thrived from its conversations and collaborations with other disciplines. The field offers a model for how to make interdisciplinary ...

Take any entry level history course and the narrative is essentially the same: so and so conquered so and so, or so and so succeeded so and so, and so on. Students often complain that history is taug...

One of the most distinctive undertakings of the National History Center is our Congressional Briefings program. Initiated in 2005, the program aims to bring nonpartisan historical perspectives to iss...

Cecelia Johanna Qually was born in 1916 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, but grew up in Racine. Both her father and a stepfather died while Cele was a young woman, so Cele, the oldest of four, helped raise he...

One of the major issues facing the new 112th Congress when it convenes in January 2011 will be consideration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). The law was last reauthorized...

Author's Note: For those combining the annual meeting with a research trip, Chicago offers a wide range of historical archives for scholars of many periods. From large institutions to small specialize...

The secretariat of the International Congress of Historical Sciences (commonly known by its French acronym as CISH) has begun to gear up for the XXII International Congress, scheduled to be held in Au...

On August 22, 2013, President Barack Obama outlined many of the problems that plague higher education, particularly increasing tuition rates and rising student debt. He proposed to increase access whi...

The AHA’s Nominating Committee for 2010–11, chaired by Lisa Forman Cody (Claremont McKenna College), met January 30–31, 2010, in Washington, D.C., and offers the following candidates for offices of th...

In a move that seeks to bring stability and standards to the production of digital scholarship, the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University (GMU) has recently adopted digital ...