Highlights of the 2009 Annual Convention of the American Historical Association

News

• It's official: AHA will make an issue of gay marriage at its San Diego meeting
  

• AHA takes a big hit in the collapsing stock market
  

• AHA Members Back Move to Embarrass but Not Boycott Anti-Gay Hotel Owner at Next Convention
  

• Jobs Are Down but Attendance Is Up at This Year's Historians' Meeting
  

• A Checklist for Candidates Hoping to Zip Up a Job
  

• Outgoing AHA President Gabrielle M. Spiegel Reflects on Where the Field Is Headed
  

• Stan Katz wonders how AHA will handle challenges of the future
  

• Seeking Purpose in Graduate Course Work
  

• Liberal historians say the conservative trends of the Bush years have long roots
  

• AHA Preliminary Report: A good year on the job market but troubles loom
  

• AHA's Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award goes to Adam Hochschild
  

Related Links

• AHA Blog
  

• Historians TV
  

• Past HNN Coverage of AHA and OAH Annual Meetings
  

Bloggers

• Rate Your Students: Archie Summons Up Some AHA Detox
  

• China Beat
  

• The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar
  

• Historying
  

• Rate Your Students
  

• Claire B. Potter: Hello, American Historical Association ... My Name Is The Tenured Radical And I Am Here To Recruit You
  

• Mary L. Dudziak: Doing Transnational history at the AHA
  

• Chapatimystery
  

• historiann.com
  

• kellyinkansas.blogspot.com
  

• makinghistorypodcast.com
  

• tenured-radical.blogspot.com
  

Videos

The HISTORY NEWS NETWORK (http://hnn.us) recorded these videos at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City on January 4, 2009.

Eric Foner, professor of history at Columbia University:

Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia:

Caroline Elkins, a historian at Harvard:

Jacqueline Jones, professor of History at the University of Texas:

David Levering Lewis, professor of history at NYU:

John Darwin, lecturer in history at Oxford:

Julian Zelizer, professor of history at Princeton:

The Subprime Mortgage Meltdown in Historical Perspective

The HISTORY NEWS NETWORK (http://hnn.us) recorded the following videos of the panel addressing the subprime crisis at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City on January 4, 2009.

Louis Hyman, a Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences:

Stephen Mihm, a history professor at the University of Georgia and author of A Nation of Counterfeiters (Harvard, 2008):

Daniel Wilchins, a reporter for Reuters:

Historians Against the War: The Bush-Cheney Administration

On January 3, 2009 Historians Against the War met at the Sheraton in New York City during the annual convention of the American Historical Association. The event featured a panel discussion: The Bush-Cheney Administration.

The first two speakers to appear on the panel were historian Van Gosse and event organizer Margaret Power:

(Videographer: Joe Friendly.)

Vijay Prashad, a historian at Trinity College:

Ellen Schrecker, a historian at Yeshiva University:

Barbara Weinstein, a historian at New York University:

Alice Kessler-Harris, a historian at Columbia University:

David Montgomery, emeritus professor of history at Yale University: