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Intersecting Lines: Are Academic Job Ads Conflating Latino and Latin American History?
February 20, 2024
An increasing number of job ads for modern Latin American history now also ask for expertise in Latino/x history. Why?
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Super-X-Ear
February 28, 2024
An ad for the Wrist-Ear sent historian Jaipreet Virdi looking for the physical hearing aid itself.
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2023 AHA Nominations
March 8, 2023
The Nominating Committee offers the following candidates for offices of the AHA.
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We Will All Go Together When We Go: Tom Lehrer and Academic Honesty
March 5, 2024
Have ideas of academic integrity changed since the 1940s?
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What about Continuity? A Sixth C of Historical Thinking
March 13, 2024
Since 2007, many have been using the five Cs framework in their teaching. Is it time to add a sixth?
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Conversations with the Dead: In the March Issue of the <em>American Historical Review</em>
March 12, 2024
Get a peek inside the latest issue of the AHR.
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Who Is in Charge of History Curricula? Some Findings from the AHA’s Research
April 17, 2024
The AHA’s Mapping the Landscape project has found that teachers are facing a perennial question.
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A Trading Card Collection
April 25, 2024
Among the objects we found in my father’s effects after his death was what seemed to be a photo album. Carefully sealed in a gallon-sized food storage bag was a crisp, clear book filled with trading c...
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12 Years a Slave Examines the Old South's Heart of Darkness
November 14, 2013
The audience leaving the theater after a recent screening of 12 Years a Slave looked deeply shaken. When asked about their intense reaction to the film, some described feeling as though they had just ...
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Academic Freedom in the Digital Age: AAUP Report Addresses a Changing Landscape
February 1, 2014
In 2004 the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) published the report Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications. This document covered a range of scholarly activities and looked a...