AHA

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/3/2021
  

  Townhouse Notes: The Shoulder We Cry On

  by Ashley E. Bowen

  In times of crisis, historians are tempted to enter into a forward-looking task of placing current grief in a narrative of progress. They cannot forget that their primary role is to make us uncomfortable with what we think we know about the past. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  10/21/2020
  

  Webinar: Teaching Assistants in the Time of COVID

  Join an AHA sponsored webinar on the challenges facing graduate teaching assistants in remote, hybrid, and in-person classes during COVID. October 22, 2:00 PM Eastern

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  10/13/2020
  

  AHA Urges Retraction of Executive Order Prohibiting the Inclusion of “Divisive Concepts” in Employee Training Sessions

  In response to the president’s recent executive order prohibiting the inclusion of “divisive concepts” in employee training sessions, the AHA has issued a statement urging the retraction of the order because it is “neither necessary nor useful.”

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/1/2020
  

  Trump is Afraid of Honest History

  by James Grossman

  Trump's proposal for a "1776 Commission" suggests that history teachers should be cheerleaders, reducing the nation’s complex past to a simplistic and inaccurate narrative of unique virtue and perpetual progress.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  9/24/2020
  

  AHA Statement on the Recent "White House Conference on American History”

  The AHA only reluctantly gives air to such distraction; we are not interested in inflating a brouhaha that is a mere sideshow to the many perils facing our nation at this moment. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  8/31/2020
  

  2021 ANNUAL MEETING CANCELED

  The American Historical Association has canceled its annual meeting in January 2021; the organization will work to develop virtual programming in the next several months. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  8/5/2020
  

  Remote Teaching Wiki

  Here, historians who have resources useful for remote teaching can share them, and those racing to adapt courses can search for materials instead of working from scratch. 

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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.