Laura McEnaney looks back on three years as an AHA vice president.

To the Editor: As a historian who taught Latin American history from 1968 until my retirement in 2010, and a 50-year member of the AHA, I was especially interested in the May 2022 issue focused on ret...

Having been a part-time history professor for most of the past 17 years (with the exception of a few spells as a full-time leave replacement) and having had many advantages, I believe that I have been...

I’m not sure when I attended my first AHA annual meeting. Probably 1981, although it could have been earlier. I’ve been to a lot of them. Four years on the job market; committees—AHA and otherwise; re...

Endnotes, the rubric under which this essay appears, is a new, occasional column that we launch with this 50th anniversary issue. The felicitously apposite column title came from our former colleague,...

I am a librarian by profession, a historian by avocation, and an AHA member. I am semi-retired and now work part time in the library of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, where my husband, William Ko...

“Being in the funeral business . . . You hear things that you should never acknowledge. You hold history in your hands. You watch history buried. And you realize that people depend on you to keep their true history alive. So when it’s your own story, you don’t want to hear it. Especially when you’re young. Especially when you’re trying to run away from what you are told is your...

Comedian Joel McHale recently gave an interview where he mentioned that he had been a history major but had turned to acting because “it’s not like you can open a history shop!” While those of us whose passion for history became our profession might cringe at this, we also must acknowledge that many of our history majors do go on to professions that have nothing, on...

My initial experiences of the 119th Annual Meeting of the AHA (my first) began on a Boeing 757. Hurtling northwestward over the frozen midsection of the country, I realized that I was surrounded by pe...

"Course was great! Never have I learned so much in a history class and also had fun doing it. You actually took a rather boring subject, history, and made it interesting." In 40 years of teaching I ha...