My colleague, Lillian Guerra, writes elsewhere in this issue about the AHA Job Register from the point of view of a recent graduate student. I participated in the interview process this year as the ch...

Tweets from the panel held at the American Historical Association annual meeting on January 5, 2015 The post Reflections on Ferguson and the Value of Historical Context appeared first on American Historical Association.

William J. Cronon, vice president of the AHA's Professional Division, writes: The AHA's Professional Division is commissioning a series of essays and advisory documents about common challenges histori...

The contentious public debates over the interpretation of history that have made headlines during the past few years recently inspired me to reflect on my own experience with some of the issues that h...

Editor's Note: In this second installment of a two-part essay, the author considers the various possible responses to plagiarism. The first part, "A Guide for the Perplexed," appeared in the February ...

What is the role and place of academic journals in an environment undergoing massive and rapid change? Social networking, nontraditional scholarship, blogs, and open access publishing have all put pre...

The online summer issue of Perspectives on History has now includes an article by Keith R. Allen, a research scholar at the University of Giessen. Allen offers a historian’s reflection on the recent tension between Germany and the United States over intelligence gathering. The episode has received widespread press coverage and commentary, including articles in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Bloomberg News, and many other media outlets. Allen...

At 8:30 on Saturday morning, the Mercury Ballroom room was buzzing, and there wasn’t even any coffee.  The energy was generated by Interviewing in the Job Market in the 21st Century, a workshop organized by the AHA’s Professional Division, and co-sponsored by the Graduate and Early Career Committee and the Coordinating Council for Women in History. The purpose of the workshop was to give job candidates in history the opportunity to...

Editor’s Note: The February issue of Perspectives on History carried an article by Carlisle High School teacher Kevin Wagner, winner of the AHA’s 2015 Beveridge Family Teaching Prize. In the piece, Wagner described traveling with his student, Sam Spare, to Normandy as part of the Sacrifice for Freedom Albert H. Small Teacher Institute, created by National History Day. Here are Sam’s reflections on the institute, his relationship with his history...

At a recent Washington History Seminar, hosted by the National History Center and the Wilson Center, Sharita Jacobs Thompson spoke about commemorating Emancipation Day at the Hill Center. She now describes and reflects on this important event. On the morning of April 15, 2015, I made the trek to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland, to pick up its traveling exhibit, The Emotional Toll of War. That afternoon, I...