From #AHAPerspectives in 2022: "I am 94 years old, and a few years ago, I decided to write a memoir," wrote Peggy Liss. "It took on a life of its own when material things—furnishings, clothing, and food—intruded as organizing topics."
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Everything has a history.
About us
The American Historical Association is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies. The AHA provides leadership for the discipline by protecting academic freedom, developing professional standards, supporting scholarship and innovative teaching, and helping to sustain and enhance the work of historians. As the largest organization of professional historians in the world, the AHA represents nearly 12,000 members and serves historians representing every historical period and geographical area in a wide variety of professions. AHA members include K –12 teachers; independent scholars; academics at two- and four-year colleges and universities; graduate and undergraduate students; and historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, and in government and business roles; and countless people who, whatever their profession, possess an abiding interest in history. For more information about the AHA, visit our official web site at http://www.historians.org/ To become a member, click here: http://www.historians.org/join
- Website
- https://www.historians.org
External link for American Historical Association
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1884
- Specialties
- history, history profession, history education, advocacy, and research
Locations
- Primary
400 A St. SE
Washington, DC 20003, US
Employees at American Historical Association
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William F. Wechsler
Director, Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council
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Matthew T. Keough
Archives and Facilities Administrator at the American Historical Association
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Debbie Doyle
Director of Meetings at American Historical Association
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Heather DeHaan
Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University Fulbright Scholar Liaison for Binghamton U campus
Updates
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A group of 15 founding-era historians represented by the Brennan Center for Justice have filed an amicus curiae brief in Trump v. United States, challenging the former president’s claim of immunity. The authors include AHA members Holly Brewer (Univ. of Maryland), Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason Univ.), Jack N. Rakove (Stanford Univ.), Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford Univ.), Gautham Rao (American Univ.), Alexander Keyssar (Harvard Univ.), and Joanne Freeman (Yale Univ.).
Historians' Amicus Brief in Trump v. United States
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We know teaching the events of January 6, 2021—which are not a “moment,” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar, yet unusually urgent, challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help.
The Assault on the Capitol in Historical Perspective: Resources for Educators | AHA
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Congratulations to AHA Council member Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan (Rutgers Univ.), who has been awarded the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance’s 2024 Teaching Award. This award recognizes “innovation and creativity in teaching New Jersey studies on the elementary, middle, secondary, and college level.”
NJSAA - Teaching Award
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An increase in the number of tenure-track job listings that ask for expertise in both Latin American and Latinx history poses existential and practical challenges. Celso Thomas Castilho and Sara Kozameh explore the data and what comes next in #AHAPerspectives.
Intersecting Lines: Are Academic Job Ads Conflating Latino and Latin American History?
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A father’s trading card collection provides a window on a dark era in human history in David K. Wessel’s #EverythingHasAHistory for #AHAPerspectives.
A Trading Card Collection
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AHA researcher Scot McFarlane will testify on behalf of the AHA to the Maine Department of Education regarding the state’s current social studies standards. In a public hearing in Augusta on April 29, McFarlane will share prepared remarks. “Maine’s social studies standards … emphasize skills with little specificity about content. This is a missed opportunity. State-level social studies standards can help teachers engage their students by placing local, state, and regional history in a context that connects to national and global themes,” his testimony states. “Good, history-rich standards can guide parents, teachers, and school administrators as they prepare future generations of Maine students for success in a complex and interconnected world.”
AHA Researcher Testifies on Maine Social Studies Standards (April 2024) | AHA
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Congratulations to AHA members Joseph M.H. Clark (Univ. of Kentucky), Mostafa Minawi (Cornell Univ.), and John W. Sweet (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), along with the other historians who have been named as 2024–25 National Humanities Center (NHC) fellows. “[The fellows] were selected from a highly competitive group of applicants representing institutions from across the globe,” said NHC president and director Robert D. Newman “We look forward to their arrival in the fall as they each contribute their individual brilliance to creating a lively intellectual community.”
The National Humanities Center Announces 2024–25 Fellows | National Humanities Center
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AHA members Carol Anderson (Emory Univ.), Orville Vernon Burton (Clemson Univ.), and Alexander Keyssar (Harvard Univ.), as well as J. Morgan Kousser (California Inst. of Technology) have authored an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. et al. v. Secretary of State of Georgia, an appeal involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This group of voting rights historians, working with the Brennan Center for Justice and represented by Mayer Brown LLP and the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic, challenges Georgia’s claim that individuals and community groups cannot bring lawsuits to enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In the brief, they describe the historical evidence that supports the power of individuals and groups to sue to protect their voting rights.
Historians' Amicus Brief in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., et al., v. Secretary of State of Georgia
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In #AHAPerspectives, read a Long Overdue tribute to William Hansberry, historian of Africa at Howard University, who died in 1965.
William Hansberry (1894–1965)
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