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This Thursday, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on the role of the federal government on issues of academic freedom in higher education. With panelists David A. Bell, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and David M. Rabban, and James Grossman as moderator. 🗃️
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Baseball ⚾ fans: historian Adrian Burgos Jr. is in #AHAPerspectives today talking about the Negro Leagues and the incorporation of their stats into the MLB record books. 🗃️
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The AHA has issued a statement condemning the recent order from Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters requiring Oklahoma schools to incorporate the Bible as an instructional support into the curriculum. 🗃️
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It is due to the work of baseball historians that the MLB could add Negro Leagues players to their record books, Adrian Burgos Jr. argues in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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Just in time for July 4, read about how one historian has designed a first-year seminar around the Second Continental Congress. #AHAPerspectives 🗃️
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In 10 weeks, Richard Tomczak took first-year students from novices in colonial history to signing their own Olive Branch Petition. Read about his Stony Brook University course recreating the Second Continental Congress in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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The AHA has sent letters to Tarleton State University leadership expressing deep concern about the decision not to renew the contract of historian Ted Roberts "for comments made outside of the context of his university employment.” 🗃️
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A recent #AHAOnline webinar explored the role Wiki Education can play in tackling many of the challenges facing humanities education today and how educators can integrate this activity into their teaching. Read a recap in #AHAPerspectives 🗃️:
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2015: Nancy F. Cott explained how the Supreme Court's landmark decision on same-sex marriage featured differences in historical interpretation of the institution of marriage in the majority and dissenting opinions. 🗃️
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Check out the AHR's June issue, with articles that rethink approaches to global, environmental, and intellectual history, #AHRHistoryLab pieces on digital history and modes of public-making, and #AHRSyllabus modules exploring state standards in the classroom and teaching with an AHR article. 🗃️
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From #AHAOnline in 2020: This panel offered a historical examination of debates for the nation's highest office and connected these historical precedents with the 2020 election. With @jbf1755.bsky.social, Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Peniel E. Joseph, and Newton N. Minow. 🗃️
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Learn from a historian presenting their scholarship in an amicus brief . . . or another format outside traditional academic publishing.
Medical historians have been writing many amicus briefs recently, including one filed for a case about mifepristone in the 4th Circuit.
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I’ve made my calls already to my OH state rep and the OH speaker of the house to ask them to stop this bill which will harm higher ed in OH. If you’re in OH, do contact your rep ASAP!
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2022: As a historian of American law and women, Linda K. Kerber looked at Dobbs v. Jackson and other recent SCOTUS decisions as a serious departure from previous jurisprudence. "Where, oh where, is stare decisis?" she wrote. 🗃️
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Action Alert: SB 83, which would "undermine the integrity of education in Ohio’s public universities," is being considered in the Ohio House of Representatives. We encourage Ohio residents to contact your representative and urge they vote against the bill. 🗃️
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2018: Kritika Agarwal examined how the field of trans history has developed and possibilities for future scholarship. She noted, "trans history also offers an entry point to gender history and LGBT history." 🗃️
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The first time my name has appeared on the cover of a book. This one is special to me.
Available soon for order, Designing Introductory Courses for Student Success is the culminating publication from the @ahahistorians.bsky.social History Gateways initiative.
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Read a history of a place you’re visiting this summer.
On the way to Prince Edward Island last week, I read the quite short It Was Their War Too: Canadian Women in World War I by Pat Staton (in honor of Rilla Blythe).
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Our third annual #AHAReads summer reading challenge has begun! I’m going to try again to complete all 6 tasks—but you only need to do 3 to finish. historians.org/aha-reads
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Every summer, I look forward to working with three new brilliant graduate students on these columns. And we've got some great ones coming up!
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The AHA is pleased to announce this year's #AHAPerspectives summer columnists! Congratulations to Paul Anthony, Erica Lally, and Isabel Naquin. Learn about them and their upcoming columns. 🗃️
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My pet project, #AHAReads, is back for a third summer! Join the challenge and let's read some great history together until Labor Day!
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The AHA is pleased to announce the Fellowships in Aerospace History: Reynolds Hahamovitch (Univ. of Michigan), Breanna Lohman (Univ. of Toronto), and Christina Roberts (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara). #AHAPerspectives 🗃️
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June is here, which means #AHAReads has started! Join the AHA's summer reading challenge. 🗃️
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Youth movements are not uniquely American. In #AHAPerspectives, John Delury and @jwassers.bsky.social discuss three East Asian protests that teach us something about today. 🗃️
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It's that time of year when graduates are commencing the next stage of their lives and careers. At #AHAPerspectives, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social shares what he told the graduating students of the Columbus State University history department.
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As a new department chair presiding over end of year celebrations, Bryan A. Banks “felt compelled to draw together the reasons we were in that room and in that community.” He shares that message in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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“The grand and gothic ruins of asylums still haunt the American landscape and our psyches,” Whitney E. Barringer writes in the latest #EverythingHasAHistory article for #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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Bryant was one of the first Black women to earn a PhD in History in the US, and her 1943 NYU dissertation was a pioneering study of the Union League.
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In the latest Long Overdue tribute in #AHAPerspectives, learn about Susie Lee Owens Bryant, a historian of Reconstruction, who taught at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College (today's Tennessee State University) before becoming a leader in the Urban League. 🗃️
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In #AHAPerspectives, read a Long Overdue tribute to Susie Lee Owens Bryant, one of the first African American women to earn a PhD in history, who died in 1986. 🗃️
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Are you a fan of the American Historical Review's podcast, #HistoryInFocus? Daniel J. Story discusses the development of the podcast and his own career in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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The AHA SHARP grants program helped 50 small history organizations achieve ambitious goals in 2022–23. In #AHAPerspectives, read accounts from three grantees—a historical society, a museum, and a membership association—about what they accomplished. 🗃️
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Coming up on Thursday—an @ahahistorians.bsky.social Congressional briefing on gerrymandering. (It may be filmed by C-SPAN.)
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Deadline approaching: submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources. 🗃️
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Are you a new department chair looking to hit the ground running or an old hand in search of additional resources? In #AHAPerspectives, deputy director Dana Schaffer writes about the AHA's efforts to support chairs in their work. 🗃️
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The AHA’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award honors teachers of history who taught, guided, and inspired their students in a way that changed their lives. Nominate the graduate mentor who meant the most to you by May 15. 🗃️
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Submit nominations for the AHA's Beveridge Family Teaching Prize by May 15. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in elementary, middle school, and secondary history teaching, including career contributions and specific initiatives. The 2024 prize will be awarded to a group. 🗃️
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Congratulations to former AHA president Jacqueline Jones (@UTAustin), who was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book, No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era. 🗃️ www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...
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My latest #AHAPerspectives article is an interview with @bethlinker.bsky.social about her fascinating new book, Slouch. (And of course I am slouching as I type this.) 🗃️@princetonupress.bsky.social
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How did we come to believe that bad posture is bad for your health? In #AHAPerspectives, @lmansley.bsky.social interviews @bethlinker.bsky.social about her new book, Slouch (@princetonupress.bsky.social). 🗃️
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For many, creating memes was a dark-humored way to get through 2020. But as Caitlin Kossmann writes in #AHAPerspectives, even memes have a history. 🗃️
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Deadline approaching: submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources. 🗃️
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“In reality, what does the secondary US history curriculum look like? And what do teachers actually bring to their classrooms?” In #AHAPerspectives, James Grossman addresses these questions and more with results from an AHA research project. 🗃️
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What if we classified Civil War battlefields more expansively? AHA president Thavolia Glymph writes in #AHAPerspectives about shifting our definitions.
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The AHA has issued a statement “deplor[ing] recent decisions among college and university administrators to draw on local and state police forces to evict peaceful demonstrators.” 🗃️
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Join us for “Teaching with Historiography” on May 8 at 4 PM ET, featuring Agnieszka Aya Marczyk, @abbyreisman.bsky.social, and Brenda Santos. Attendees will learn methods for designing curricular materials that support student historiographic thinking. 🗃️ #AHALearn www.historians.org/aha-online
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Read more from editor @mappermundi.bsky.social. 🗃️
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Historians have many outlets for intellectual and civic contribution. Pitch #AHAPerspectives an article about how your work engages in broadening the landscape of historical scholarship. (1/2)
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The William and Edwyna Gilbert Award for the Best Article on Teaching History recognizes outstanding contributions to the teaching of history through the publication of articles in journals, magazines, and other serials. Submit nominations by May 15. 🗃️
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