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Get Ready for the 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego
September 1, 2009
The 124th annual meeting of the Association will be held January 7–10, 2010, in San Diego at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego and the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. Hotel information follows i...
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Themes to be Selected at Beijing for 2010 Amsterdam Meeting of CISH
September 1, 2007
The General Assembly of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (usually known by the acronym from the French name as CISH) will be meeting in Beijing September 14–19, 2007. At this meeting...
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Special Sessions and Activities Organized by the Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
September 1, 2009
Editor’s Note: The AHA’s Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-sex Marriage has developed several special sessions and other activities for the San Diego annual meeting. These are listed b...
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In Memoriam: Miriam Usher Chrisman
May 1, 2009
Social historian of the German Reformation Miriam Usher Chrisman (1920–2008), a historian of the German Reformation, died in Bedford, Massachusetts, on November 17, 2008. Her husband, the distinguishe...
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Letter to the Editor: What Is the Price of Presidential Libraries?
February 1, 2007
To the Editor: As a long-time member of the American Historical Association and executive director of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, I have great difficulty understanding concerns raised in ...
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Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage: An AHA Miniconference at the 124th Annual Meeting
October 1, 2009
Marriage, wrote historian William Alexander in 1779, “is so far from having been an institution, fixed by permanent and unalterable laws, that it has been continually varying in every period, and in e...
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The Digital History Reader
May 1, 2007
Did the First World War cause the revolution in Russia? Why did Virginia colonists decide to import slaves from Africa? What was the relationship between abolitionism and the struggle for women’s righ...
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AHA Vice President and 11 Other Members Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
May 1, 2009
The vice president of the AHA’s Teaching Division, Karen Halttunen (Univ. of Southern California), and 11 other members of the Association were among the 182 artists, scholars, scientists, and writers...
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Presidential Sessions at the 124th Annual Meeting
November 1, 2009
The location of this year’s AHA convention helped inspire the theme “Islands, Oceans, Continents.” In San Diego, the Pacific is a constant presence, seen from the harbor or from one of the city’s many...
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Time for Change
September 1, 2007
From time to time organizations, even healthy ones, need to step back, take stock, and consider whether the ways in which they are doing things are working as well as they once did. In the case of the...