AHA

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• 1-5-18
  

  UPDATED Highlights of the 2019 AHA Annual Meeting

  by HNN Staff

  What's happening at this year's annual meeting of the American Historical Association. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10-2-18
  

  American Historical Association report reveals harassment and demeaning behavior at its meetings

  Historians join political scientists in documenting the unprofessional and illegal behavior women experience at annual gatherings.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7-9-18
  

  Where Historians Work

  The American Historical Association this week launches Where Historians Work an online tool tracking career outcomes for the more than 8,500 historians who earned their Ph.D.s at U.S. institutions between 2004 and 2014.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6-29-18
  

  A Maverick Candidate’s Message to the AHA: Elect More Adjuncts

  A medievalist petitions her way onto the ballot for the American Historical Association’s council.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association website
  2-22-18 (accessed)
  

  AHA President Mary Beth Norton says ending sexual harassment is a high priority

  by Mary Beth Norton

  In a report to members she lays out the multi-pronged approach the organization is taking.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  12-12-17 (accessed)
  

  AHA says it’s feasible to stop the proposed tax on grad student tuition waivers

  The organization urges members to contact their members of Congress.

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  11-2-17
  

  Upcoming sessions at the AHA will reveal how medieval history has been distorted by white supremacists

  by Carol Symes

  "With every passing day, the AHA’s upcoming annual meeting on the theme of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective is becoming more and more urgent."

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• SOURCE: AHA
  10-24-17 (accessed)
  

  The theme of the 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be “Loyalties”

  by Mary Beth Norton, Claire Bond Potter, and Brian W. Ogilvie

  The determination to maintain old loyalties or devise new ones can become a foundation for building nations, waging war, transforming and imagining new forms of human community.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  10-24-17 (accessed)
  

  Historians will be discussing these current events at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association

  Topics include how museums should remember plantation slavery, Chicano history and the role of historians as public intellectuals.

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• SOURCE: Retraction Watch
  7-6-17 (accessed)
  

  Columbia’s Charles K. Armstrong returns prize for high-profile book with 70+ corrections

  The AHA had awarded the book the Fairbank prize in 2014.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  5-23-17
  

  AHA joins protest of Trump’s plan for drastic cuts to the NEH

  The administration is budgeting just enough money to shut down the agency and to honor pre-existing grant commitments.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  5-9-17 (accessed)
  

  Study: An average of 3/4ths of students enrolled in US History introductory courses get a C or better but thousands fail

  by Andrew K. Koch

  Race, family income levels, gender, and status as a first-generation college student are the best predictors of who will or will not succeed.

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  3-16-17
  

  American Historical Association calls on members to contact Congress immediately about Trump’s cuts to NEH & NEA

  "Because so much is at stake, the AHA asks our members to contact their representatives in Congress as soon as possible to register strong objections to the massive cuts to programs essential to the cultivation of our national heritage and civic culture."

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  10-26-16
  

  Alex Lichtenstein to serve as next Editor of the American Historical Review

  Lichtenstein is professor of history at Indiana University, where he teaches US and South African history.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  7-25-16
  

  The next president of the American Historical Association will be ...

  Tyler E. Stovall (University of California, Santa Cruz). But you already knew that. So the real news is who the president-elect will be. It's Cornell's Mary Beth Norton.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  3-14-16
  

  AHA nominations are in

  President-elect candidates:  David Blight and Mary Beth Norton. 

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  2-8-16
  

  American Historical Association protests Turkey’s crackdown on historians and other academics who signed a a petition critical of the Turkish government

  The AHA issued a letter urging Turkish President Erdogan to respect academic freedom and freedom of expression.

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  10-27-15
  

  Perfect Timing: the AHA’s upcoming annual meeting will focus on migration

  Which lessons from the past are ultimately going to be most helpful for creating a more humane future? The 2016 annual meeting will offer historians many chances to debate that question.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  10-19-15 (accessed)
  

  New Mock Briefings Program Shows Student-Historians How to Inform Policy

  This fall the National History Center is introducing the Mock Policy Briefings Program, modeled on our own Congressional Briefings by Historians initiative.

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• SOURCE: AHA Blog
  7-27-15
  

  Election results are in for the American Historical Association

  President:  Patrick Manning.  President-elect:   Tyler E. Stovall.