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HIGHLIGHTS
News
- Historians Against the War (HAW) call out critics for falsely claiming the group backed a boycott of Israel
- Quotes: What historians are saying about controversy at the AHA about Israel
- "The radical historians lose again" Ron Radosh in the Weekly Standard
- How historians put Ferguson in context
- AHA Decides NOT to Debate Resolutions Critical of Israel
- Press Release -- Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee: "Whose History of the Vietnam War Will Prevail?"
- Alliance for Academic Freedom, “Why We Oppose the Resolutions Critical of Israel”
- Spirited Argument Breaks Out at Roundtable on Resolutions Critical of Israel
- The Bestselling History Books of 2014
- The AHA Will Be Taking Up 2 Resolutions Critical of Israel
- Resolution on Protecting the Right to Education in Palestine-Israel
- Resolution on Academic Freedom of U.S. Citizens Visiting Israel and Palestine
Panels
- The Nation in the World: 150 Years of Critical Engagement : Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Sara Alpern, Juan Cole, Greg Grandin, and Calvin Trillin
- What is the Responsibility of Historians Regarding the Israel/Palestine Conflict?: Carolyn Eisenberg, Leena Dallasheh, Joel Beinin, Linda Gordon, Barbara Weinstein
- Historians as Public Intellectuals: Ellen F. Fitzpatrick, Partha Chatterjee, Thomas Bender
- America and the Left: Past and Present: Rick Perlstein, Alice Kessler-Harris, Nelson Lichtenstein, Meg Jacobs
- Ferguson in historical perspective: Marcia Chatelain, William Jelani Cobb, Colin H. Gordon, Khalil Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson.
- Interpreting Women's History for the Public
Interviews
- Jack Censer: What Historians Have to Do to Survive
- Kate Brown: How All Sides in the Ukraine Crisis Are Misusing History
- Jim Grossman: What I’m Reading Now
On Other Websites
- The Voting Rights Act and the Challenge of Getting It Right
- Should dissertations be posted online?
- John D’Emilio tells how teaching LGBT history to undergrads has evolved over time
- Jan Goldstein's Presidential Address (video)
- Religious History at the AHA (Patheos)
- History and Historians in the Ukraine Crisis (AHA blog)
- The Past, Present, and Future of the Voting Rights Act (AHA Blog)
- Historians on Israel (Harold Brackman)
- Whither the History Major? (The Way of Improvement Leads Home)
- Historians Decline to Take Up Resolutions Criticizing Israel (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- Historians Skirt Anti-Israel Votes (Insider Higher Ed)
- American Historical Association rejects anti-Israel resolutions vote (Times of Israel)
- Scholars’ Effort to Condemn Israel Fails (NYT)
- Inside Account: How Anti-Israel Resolutions Were Defeated at American Historical Association (Jeff Herf)
- American Historical Association rejects anti-Israel Resolutions (Legalinsurrection.com)
- On the Archive Beat on Day One of AHA 2015 (The Way of Improvement Leads Home)
- Who Makes History?: American Religious Historians and the Problem of Historical Agency (The Way of Improvement Leads Home)