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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...
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The 2013 Jobs Report: Number of AHA Ads Dip, New Experiment Offers Expanded View
January 1, 2014
The number of positions advertised with the AHA in the 2012-13 academic year dipped by 7.3 percent from the previous year, falling after two years of gains. From June 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013, the AHA...
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Making Something Out of Bupkis: The AHA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship
February 1, 2014
Bupkis. That’s the value of a lot of good historical scholarship that appears in certain “nontraditional” formats. At least if we measure “value” according to what one’s work contributes to hiring, pr...
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Reinvigorating FRUS
March 1, 2014
In January 2009, the Office of the Historian at the US Department of State was in disarray. It had lost a significant number of its veteran staff, members of its advisory committee had been dismissed ...
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A Historian in the World of Investments
March 1, 2014
The typical career for a history PhD is presumed to be a university-level teaching job, but I ended up as the global head of institutional business for Fidelity Worldwide Investment. If this seems li...
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Report of the 2013 AHA Nominating Committee
January 1, 2014
On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 2013 election for AHA offices. The committee is extremely grateful to all the candidates who agreed to stand for Associ...
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What I Do: Historians Talk about Their Work, with Stephen Aron
January 1, 2014
Stephen Aron talks to What I Do about his role as chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West, specifically how his work bridges the gap between research at universities and museums. “Wh...
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Five Tips on Crafting an Annual Meeting Proposal
January 1, 2014
The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2015 annual meeting in New York is February 15, 2014. Here are some tips on crafting a successful proposal. Be creative The Program Committee encourages p...
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Transforming the Preparation of Historians: Much More to Do
February 1, 2014
In the January 2014 issue of Perspectives on History, Thomas Bender, with his characteristic lucididy and cogency, reviewed the consequences of The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Centur...
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A New Course: Converting a Passion for History into a Private Sector Career
January 1, 2014
I first discovered my passion for history when studying the Civil War in the sixth grade. The causes and contingencies of events of the 1860s seemed more complex than my teacher let on, so I began doi...