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AHA Website Back Online

As many of you know, the American Historical Association's web site ( www.historians.org) went off line on Monday, October 24th. By the evening of Tuesday the 25th we were back online with a temporary homepage. The web site has now been completely restored and all of its regular features are again accessible.

The web site's technical difficulties were directly related to Hurricane Wilma. Our web hosting company, Advances.com, is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. On the morning of Monday, October 24th Wilma hit, downing power lines and hurling debris into our hosting company's generator. With power out and phone lines down we were unable to contact them until Thursday the 28th. They're back in business, and so is the American Historical Association's web site.