Happy Thanksgiving! While you devour turkey this afternoon, enjoy some history about this day as a side dish. Two podcasts, one from BackStory and the other from the National Museum of American History, take a look at Thanksgiving from the view of the Puritans, Victorians, American Indians, and even a football player. Then, the National Archives has put together Thanksgiving history paired with related documents...

The June issue of the American Historical Review includes articles on Chinese oyster fishers, the International Monetary Fund, and more.

We are delighted to announce that AHA members now have free access to History Compass for 6 months starting 17 March 2008. The post Free access to History Compass for AHA Members appeared first on American Historical Association.

From June to Labor Day, read along with other historians.

Hopefully your summer includes a little vacation time. To aid you in planning where to visit, we start this post off with some links about museums: 12 history trips from the New York Times, simulations in natural history museums, how the National Archives preserves the Declaration of Independence, and a new exhibit review blog from the National Council on Public History. Then, while the...

This week we’ve been reading about the 2012 federal budget (or the continuation of the 2011 fiscal year budget) and how it would affect the history and archival communities. Then, read about the rare map donated to the Library of Congress, the Civil War sesquicentennial digitization project, and an exhibit on video games that needs your help. Also, since Valentine’s Day was earlier this week we link to a podcast...

In the news this week, the shutdown of the federal government looms, Wikipedia wants to know why experts don’t contribute, EDSITEment offers resources for jazz appreciation, legislators preserve land for the National Women’s History Museum, Drake University is digitizing its student newspaper, and some historians question the presidential bios on the White House site. We’ve also come across a number of Civil War related links this week, including a collection of...

First up this week, articles on the National Museum of African American History and Culture, human subjects research policies, and access to Kennedy records. In the news, Walmart has withdrawn its plan to build a store near the Wilderness Battlefield, a historian is accused of changing the date on a Lincoln document, and the White House has put the State of the Union Address on...

To begin this week we point to a number of articles that feature historians talking about the history profession and historians themselves. Then, sit in on a class led by James Sheehan when you watch the podcast of “History of the International System.” This past weekend the Smithsonian announced their new secretary is Georgia Tech’s current president; we link to three sites’ coverage on...

This past Monday actor Robert Duvall sent news agencies buzzing when he said “he will help preservationists in ‘chasing out’ [Wal-mart] from a site near the Wilderness Battlefield” where they are planning on building a 138,000 square-foot supercenter (a fight that began last year). Preserving Civil War history is an important, and sometimes contentious topic. In this post we bring you a host of Civil...