As the low buzz in the hotel ballroom shortly after lunchtime grew to animated conversation throughout the afternoon, it became clear that the third annual AHA Career Fair captured the energy of the A...

On January 5, 2023, the AHA Council approved the Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship.

A popular assignment format meets students—and audiences—where they are.

A satirical article in the Onion recently manufactured an AHA report that warns, “The past is currently expanding at an alarming rate” and “is larger now than it’s ever been before.” After laughing a...

In the news this week, AHA President Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has won a prestigious award, the Gates Foundation has donated a significant amount to the African American History and Culture Museum, and a Russian historian has been detained for violating “privacy laws” in his research. We also link to two articles on the history of healthcare. One comes from the History Guys and another from...

The writing of academic history seems to be in a crisis. Historical monographs pour from the university presses—at least 1,200 or so a year—and yet have very few readers. Sometimes sales of academic h...

Hundreds of students pass through the introductory history courses of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln each semester with various backgrounds and skill levels. Although some of them have faced a pr...

The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) will be holding its 2006 annual meeting online April 24–27, 2006, the first history conference to be held in this asynchronous format. Titled ...

This post marks the third in a series on what we’ve come to call the Career Diversity Five Skills—five things graduate students need to succeed as professors and in careers beyond the academy: Communication, in a variety of media and to a variety of audiences Collaboration, especially with people who might not share your worldview Quantitative literacy, a basic ability to understand and communicate information presented in quantitative form Intellectual self-confidence, the ability to work...

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...