We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History, which will be conferred annually starting at the January 2011 annual meeting. The prize will recognize the most distinguished work of scholarship on the history of continental African history published in English during the previous calendar year. The post Announcing the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History appeared first on American Historical Association.

In the news this week, new restrictions and fees for researchers entering the U.S. raises concerns, Marilyn B. Young’s Decolonization lecture is now online, historian Robert N. Proctor continues to deal with Big Tobacco, ICHS gears up for Amsterdam 2010, and Newsweek takes a look at the last decade. On the topic of African American history we bring you two articles: one on Howard...

In the news this week, the National Coalition for History reports on the lawsuit that’s been dropped now that 22 million e-mails from the Bush administration, that were thought lost, have been found. Also, check out the China Beat blog’s roundup of China-related talks around the world and at the AHA’s upcoming 124th annual meeting. We bring you articles on a variety of topics this...

The American Society for Environmental History offers the Rachel Carson Prize for Best Dissertation in Environmental History. The post Grant of the Week: Rachel Carson Prize for Best Dissertation in Environmental History appeared first on American Historical Association.

In light of the recent swine flu pandemic, it seems timely to look back at the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, often referred to as the Great Pandemic. The deadly virus hit the world at a vulnerable time, as World War I had just come to a close in the early fall of 1918. Unfortunately, Allied soldiers caught the virus in the infamous European trenches and brought...

Across the web the question “What day is it?” has taken on new meaning... The post Today In History appeared first on American Historical Association.

The National Council for History Education (NCHE), an AHA affiliated society, just announced the winner of its first-ever Paul Gagnon Prize for a K-12 Teacher Exhibiting Exceptional Historical Scholarship. The 2007 award went to Philip Nicolosi, a history and social studies teacher at the West Morris Central High School in Chester, New Jersey. The post NCHE Awards High School Teacher with the Paul Gagnon Prize appeared first on American Historical Association.

Dianne Van Der Reyden offers a fascinating survey of the enormous debt historians owe to librarians and archivists for preserving the materials of the past, both for our use and for the use of future generations of historians. Her essay marks the 40th anniversary of the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress... The post Celebrating 40 Years of Preserving the Past at the LoC appeared first on American Historical Association.

New this week, some Iowa history classrooms are embracing primary resources over textbooks, a British man and his metal detector unearth seventh-century treasures, the Gilder Lehrman Institute releases an issue of History Now on the American Revolution, the National Security Archive joins Facebook, and Google Books features every issue of LIFE ever published. Then, we bring you two articles on NARA: one on NARA’s proposal...

The National History Center has entered into a partnership with New Books In History, which audiocasts interviews with historians discussing their latest research and writing. The first in the series offered in conjunction with the New Books in History focuses on the “Reinterpreting History” books, published by Oxford University Press. Article By: Miriam Hauss Cunningham, Administrative Officer of the National History Center The post New Books in...