AHA Member Named Chair of Humanities Tennessee (January 2021) Added January 04, 2021

Congratulations to AHA member Daryl Carter (East Tennessee State Univ.), who was elected to chair the board of directors of Humanities Tennessee after serving on the board since 2014.

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Virtual AHA’s January Session Added January 04, 2021

AHA Staff Featured in Wall Street Journal (January 2021) Added January 04, 2021

AHA director of academic and professional affairs Emily Swafford was featured in a Wall Street Journal article regarding PhD admissions for the fall 2021 cycle. “Historians don’t really say ‘unprecedented,’ because everything has a precedent. But this sort of large-scale pausing is very strange,” said Swafford.

AHA Joins Coalition to Save National Archives Facility in Seattle (January 2021) Added January 04, 2021

The AHA has joined the Washington state attorney general’s office; the state of Oregon; 29 tribes, tribal entities, and Indigenous communities from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska; and 8 community organizations, historic preservation organizations, and museums in filing a lawsuit “to halt the federal government’s unlawful and procedurally deficient sale of the National Archives at Seattle facility.” The government plans to transfer the Seattle facility’s records, most of which have not been digitized, to archive centers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Riverside, California—rendering public access to the records difficult if not impossible for millions of users.

AHA Expresses Solidarity with Mexican Historians (January 2021) Added January 05, 2021

The AHA has issued a statement expressing solidarity with “professional historians affected by the extreme and arguably punitive fiscal retrenchment affecting Mexico’s system of higher education.” The AHA “reminds decision makers that the habits of mind and knowledge that derive from the study of history have never been more important and deserving of adequate funding than at the present moment.”