A standing-room only crowd that turned out for the Saturday evening reception co-sponsored by the AHA Professional Division, the American Association for State and Local History, the National Council on Public History (NCPH), the National Museum of American History, and the Society for History in the Federal Government testified to the increasing presence of public historians in the Association and at the meeting... The...

The National Women's History Museum, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is now posting some women’s history lesson plans online free-of-charge. These lesson plans, which are targeted to middle and secondary school students, cover subject matter such as voting rights, women reformers in the Progressive area, American women athletes in the Olympics, and women in journalism. The post Women’s History Lesson Plans for Middle and High School Teachers appeared first on American Historical Association.

As we round out the last weeks in May we note that this month many celebrated Asian Pacific Heritage, and we link to a Library of Congress page of resources for that. Speaking of commemoration, sometimes it comes with challenges. For instance, we’ve been reading articles about the ongoing design debate over the Martin Luther King memorial.. From the National Coalition for History we’ve learned...

The National History Center recently spruced up its web site with a sleeker, more streamlined look... The post National History Center Revamps Website appeared first on American Historical Association.

As always, historians have covered a range of topics in the blogosphere in the past week. We link to historians discussing general education requirements, the OAH convention, and even April Fools Day. Also, many historians are up in arms over the possible closing or relocation of the Library of Congress’s European Reading Room. On the lighter side, have you been watching John Adams on HBO?...

Footnote.com is part of Web 2.0 for historians. Check out their newest feature, the Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The post Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial from Footnote.com appeared first on American Historical Association.

At the General Meeting of the 122nd Annual Meeting this past January, Barbara Weinstein gave her presidential address: “Developing Inequality.” The full text of the address is now available in the February 2008 issue of the American Historical Review, recently made available online (AHA members should login for complete access to articles and book reviews). The post Developing Inequality – Presidential Address Now Online appeared first on American Historical Association.

A team at Carnegie Mellon has developed a program dubbed reCAPTCHA that uses the CAPTCHA process and the millions of people filling out web forms to help digitize books that will ultimately be made available for free by the Internet Archive. The post reCAPTCHA: Digitizing Books and Saving the World from Form Spam appeared first on American Historical Association.

The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University have agreed to institute a joint "Roy Rosenzweig Prize in History and New Media." The Rosenzweig Prize will be awarded annually for an innovative and freely available new media project that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history. The post American...

The New York Times is seeking the help of Civil War historians for their Times Topics project. The Times Topics site is organized into about 15,000 subjects, which pull from past New York Times articles to make pages that cover historical topics. Article By: Elisabeth Grant The post Civil War Historians Sought for Times Topics appeared first on American Historical Association.