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One Short Week in Denver: An Undergraduate History Club Goes to the AHA Annual Meeting
October 19, 2017
There we were. A small group of Californian undergrads, winter layers piled over our business casual attire, perusing the AHA 2017 annual meeting program over coffee and pastries. We discussed panels ...
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“I Am Certainly Having a Most Wonderful Experience”: Finding Women’s Expressions of Suffering in Personal Writings
July 27, 2017
For Bridget Keown, the letters of a voluntary nurse exemplify how difficult it was for women to express the suffering they endured during WWI.
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Teaching, Learning, and Access: Introducing the May Issue of Perspectives
May 8, 2017
Looking back over the past academic year, the aspirations and concerns of AHA members about undergraduate history education have been reflected in the pages of Perspectives on History. Our Teaching Di...
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AHA Announces 2017 Career Diversity for Historians Faculty Institute Participants
May 4, 2017
The AHA is pleased to announce the participants of our 2017–18 Career Diversity for Historians Faculty Institutes. One of the most important lessons of the pilot phase of our Career Diversity initiati...
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Peer Review at the AHR: A Conversation with Alex Lichtenstein
September 15, 2017
Alex Lichtenstein began a four year term as the editor of the American Historical Review (AHR) last month. His first issue as editor will be out October 1st. In honor of Peer Review Week, Alex and I h...
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American Historical Association Announces 2017 Prize Winners
October 10, 2017
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2017 prizes, to be awarded at the 132nd annual meeting in Washington, DC, January 4–7, 2018. The ceremony will be held on ...
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Baguettes and Roses: An Interview with Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary
April 3, 2017
The National Endowment for the Humanities celebrated its 50th anniversary last September with a conference in Charlottesville, Virginia: Human/Ties. Asking what it means to be human, the events ranged...
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Representing the Work of Historians: The AHA Explains Its New Look
May 18, 2017
How does one visualize the work of historians? Or represent a century-old organization with a forward-looking mission? What icons can capture an organization that serves historians specializing in eve...
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Imagining a “Job Market” Beyond Supply and Demand
September 11, 2017
A few weeks ago, two leading higher education publications ran pieces reflecting on important trends in PhD education. Inside Higher Ed published a report highlighting new data released by the America...
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Memory and Medicine: A Historian’s Perspective on Commemorating J. Marion Sims
September 17, 2017
Contentious debates over the removal of Confederate general statues that dot our landscape have led the AHA to make an eloquent statement about the meaning of memorialization and history in context. S...