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AHA Member Spotlight: Paul Ortiz Added July 11, 2023
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Catering for Affiliate Events
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Trans-ing History on the Web: The Digital Transgender Archive Added August 29, 2016
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AHA Member Spotlight: Anthony J. Steinhoff Added August 07, 2023
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AHA Executive Director Quoted in Christian Post Article on Backlash to Hillsdale Curriculum (August 2023) Added August 03, 2023
AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in a Christian Post article by Samantha Kamman about the backlash to Hillsdale College’s conservative “1776 Curriculum” for K–12 schools. The article also cited the AHA’s April 2023 letter to the South Dakota Board of Education expressing concerns about the state’s social studies standards, which failed to meet the AHA’s Criteria for Standards in History/Social Studies/Social Sciences after being reworked in a partisan political environment by a a retired Hillsdale professor.
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AHA Executive Director Quoted in NBC News Article on Hillsdale College (August 2023) Added August 03, 2023
AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in an NBC News article by Tyler Kingkade about Hillsdale College’s growing influence as a resource for conservatives overhauling K–12 education policy. “What they’ve done is they’ve simply left stuff out in an attempt to shape a vision of patriotism,” Grossman said of Hillsdale’s “1776 Curriculum.” “What they also are trying to do is replace an approach to teaching that teaches students how to think with an approach that teaches the students what to think.”
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AHA Issues Statement on the History of Racist Violence in the United States (June 2020) Added June 04, 2020
The AHA has issued a statement urging a reckoning with the United States' deplorable record of violence against African Americans, a record that stretches back centuries. The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers stands within this sordid national tradition of racist violence. It is past time for Americans to confront our nation's past, using insights from history to inform our actions as we work to create a more just society. 98 scholarly organizations have co-signed this statement to date.
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Hedva Ben-Israel (1925–2023) Added July 14, 2023
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Even Better Than the Real Thing: Faking Foodstuffs in 13th-Century Syria Added August 02, 2023
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AHA Communications Manager Quoted in Scientific American Article (July 2023) Added July 28, 2023
Alexandra Levy, AHA communications manager, was quoted in an article in Scientific American by Tom Metcalfe. Levy discussed the vast scale of the Manhattan Project and the secrecy surrounding the making of the atomic bomb, as well as J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role. “His great gift was bringing together scientists, engineers and other technicians to collaborate on and solve problems,” Levy said.