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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.
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