AHA

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  4/30/2020
  

  2020 AHA RESEARCH GRANT WINNERS

  The American Historical Association recently announced 37 winners of its annual research grants. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  4/14/2020
  

  The AHA, Historians, and COVID-19

  by James Grossman

  AHA President James Grossman says that as historians, we work hard to understand people—the people we study and the people we teach, in the classroom and beyond. This perspective will inform the AHA's efforts to help historians affected by this emergency.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/30/2020
  

  Responsibility and Civility: The Unwritten Essentials

  by Mary Lindemann

  Critical to the prospering of any academic group are the unwritten expectations that underlie and ground its workings. When they’re observed, organizations prosper; when they’re disregarded, things go terribly wrong.

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• SOURCE: Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
  3/16/2020
  

  Lawsuit: Ice Must Not Destroy Detainee Records

  NARA approved ICE’s request to begin destroying the records in December 2019, despite ongoing concerns and reports of widespread mistreatment of individuals detained in ICE custody.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/12/20
  

  AHA Publishes 2020 Jobs Report

  by Dylan Ruediger

  New History PhDs Awarded Continue to Decline as Academic Job Market Remains Flat

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• SOURCE: Toward Freedom
  2/6/20
  

  A Victory for the Immigrants’ Rights Working Group of Historians for Peace and Democracy

  by Margaret Power and Alexander Aviña

  On January 5, 2020, the Business Meeting of the American Historical Association passed a resolution condemning affiliations between ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and higher education.

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• 1/22/20
  

  The History of Presidential Misconduct Beyond Watergate and Iran-Contra

  by HNN Staff

  At the AHA, James Banner, Kathryn Olmstead, Kevin Kruse, and Jeremi Suri discussed how they revived a long forgotten report on presidential misconduct. 

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• 1/22/20
  

  The History Behind the Border and Immigrant Detention Centers

  by HNN Staff

  Families are separated at the border and people are indefinitely detained in overcrowded facilties. How a panel at this year's AHA conference examined the history of immigration. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/10/20
  

  AHA Encourages History Departments to Provide Full Library Access to Alumni and to Unaffiliated Historians in their Regions

  by James Grossman and Becky Nicolaides

  The AHA encourages history departments to provide full library access to their own scholar alumni and to unaffiliated historians in their regions.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/15/20
  

  AHA Enrollment Study Finds History Enrollments Hold Study as Department Efforts Intensify

  by Julia Brookins and Emily Swafford

  For the past several years, the AHA has conducted an optional annual enrollments survey of history departments.

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  1/12/20
  

  AHA News: Resolutions on Israel and Academic Freedom Fail at AHA

  Members of the Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) were instrumental in defeating two proposed resolutions at the business meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  1/5/20
  

  The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers

  by Sari Beth Rosenberg

  Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/7/20
  

  Historians approve an anti-ICE resolution at AHA

  Historians approve an anti-ICE resolution but vote down anti-Israel proposals at their annual meeting. They also show support for nontenured colleagues.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  12/2/19
  

  James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"

  by James Grossman

  Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/9/19
  

  AHA Ends First-Round Job Interviews at Annual AHA Conference

  American Historical Association ends annual meeting interviews and American Economic Association ends single hotel room interviews.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  Accessed 8/27/19
  

  American Historical Association Releases Statement on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History

  The statement was endorsed by many other scholarly organizations. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/20/19
  

  On the Recent Executive Order on"Free Inquiry" in Higher Education

  by James Grossman and Edward Liebow

  President Donald Trump’s executive order of March 21 on “free inquiry, transparency, and accountability in colleges and universities” is a textbook example of a classic negotiating ploy—misdirection. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/30/19
  

  Attack on the AHA Couldn’t Be More Wrong

  by Joy Connolly

  "As interim President of a large public graduate school, I believe passionately in providing education that empowers students to make the most of their lives, whether or not they pursue careers in the academy."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/26/19
  

  A Moral Stain on the Profession

  by Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes

  As the humanities collapse, it’s time to name and shame the culprits.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  4/15/19
  

  The Fate of the "AHA Interview"

  by John R. McNeill

  Even if in-person interviews yield more useful information than videoconferencing, the economic argument for abandoning the tradition is hard to resist.