American Historical Association 
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
12/18/2020
One For The History Books: The Historical Discipline Will Prevail Over Current Challenges
by Jacqueline Jones
Historians, their departments, and their institutions will have to respond creatively to the challenges posed by COVID, but perhaps the profession and the place of history in American culture can emerge stronger than ever.
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SOURCE: The Hill
11/9/2020
Trump's Latest Executive Order is a Head Scratcher to Historians
by Jim Grossman
"There is no shortage of contentious publications and conversations among professional historians about concepts like critical race theory or arguments like those advanced in the 1619 Project. But neither constitutes “child abuse,” which is a serious crime."
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
11/4/2020
2020 Awards, Prizes, And Honors Announced
As of Wednesday, some important winners have been announced--the AHA's annual prizes for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the historical profession.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
10/21/2020
History, Deliberation, and Civic Culture
by Jim Grossman
"Equating a mode of inquiry with a heinous crime should induce not only a private shudder but a public disavowal. No reasonable definition of patriotism can accommodate this despicable metaphor."
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
10/20/2020
AHA Issues Letter Defending AHA Member’s Right to Free Speech
"We trust that Collin College will respect and protect Dr. Burnett’s rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution."--Jim Grossman, AHA Executive Director
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
10/19/2020
American Historical Association Announces 2020 Prize Winners
This year’s finalists were selected from a field of over 1,400 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members.
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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
6/25/2020
AHA Statement on the History of Racist Violence in the United States (June 2020)
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers cannot be understood in isolation, as a tragic moment detached from a familiar narrative of “who we as Americans really are.” What happened to George Floyd stands well within our national tradition.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
6/23/2020
AHA Receives Major NEH Grant to Fund COVID-19 Initiative
The American Historical Association is launching a major new initiative to help our members and their colleagues with the challenges of being a historian, and a history teacher, in a virtual environment.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
10/7/19
American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners
Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
9/9/19
AHA Ends First-Round Job Interviews at Annual AHA Conference
American Historical Association ends annual meeting interviews and American Economic Association ends single hotel room interviews.
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SOURCE: AHA
Accessed 8/27/19
American Historical Association Releases Statement on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History
The statement was endorsed by many other scholarly organizations.
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1/5/19
What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In
by Kyla Sommers
“Truth itself is under attack and expertise is suspect." So what role can historians play?
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/3/19
Taking Stock of Gender History at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting 2019
by Monica L. Mercado
Why are so many scholars taking stock of gender history and women in the historical profession now?
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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: 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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