AHA2015

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• SOURCE: AHA Blog
  2-5-15
  

  Should dissertations be posted online?

  by Michael D. Hattem

  One thing to note:  There's a difference between “open access” and “public access.”

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• SOURCE: CSPAN
  1-25-15
  

  AHA 2015: Historical Perspectives on Ferguson (Video)

  by Marcia Chatelain, William Jelani Cobb, Colin H. Gordon, Khalil Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson

  Historians talked about the history of race relations in Ferguson, Missouri, and how we got here.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  1-16-15
  

  Linda Gordon backs the BDS Movement but not an academic boycott of Israel

  by Linda Gordon

  In a column in the Chronicle she lays out the argument she made at the AHA: The BDS Movement is pressuring Israel in desirable ways.

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• 1-12-15
  

  Historians Against the War (HAW) calls out critics for falsely claiming the group backed a boycott of Israel

  by Van Gosse

  HAW says the facts were readily available. 

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• SOURCE: Weekly Standard
  1-9-15
  

  "The radical historians lose again"

  by Ron Radosh

  The young radicals of the 1960s and ’70s received their Ph.D.s and began their “long march through the institutions.” They now dominate the profession.

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• SOURCE: Legal Insurrection
  1-6-15
  

  Inside Account: How resolutions critical of Israel were defeated at the American Historical Association

  by Jeffrey Herf

  "University of Maryland Professor Jeffrey Herf helped lead the battle to defeat anti-Israel resolutions at the American Historical Association"

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• 1-6-15
  

  Quotes: What Historians Are Saying About the Controversy at the AHA About Israel

  Quotes that have appeared in media and blogger accounts.

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• 1-4-15
  

  Historians Decide NOT to Debate Resolutions Critical of Israel

  by Rick Shenkman

  At the annual Business Meeting the members voted overwhelmingly not to suspend the rules to allow debate on two resolutions that had been submitted after the requisite deadline. 

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• 1-4-15
  

  Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  We may be about to find out. 

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• What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)

  by Rick Perlstein

  How the Democrats turned right and lost America. 

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• 1-4-15
  

  Why in the 1930s Did the U.S. Move Left and in the 1970s Move Right? (Video)

  by Meg Jacobs

  Conservatism survived Watergate, but liberalism struggled.

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• 1-4-15
  

  What Happened to Second Wave Feminism? (Video)

  by Alice Kessler-Harris

  Women won the battle, but lost the war, strengthening capitalism and hierarchy.

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• 1-3-15
  

  Spirited Argument Breaks Out at Roundtable on Resolutions Critical of Israel (Video)

  by Rick Shenkman

  The AHA is being petitioned to vote on two resolutions critical of Israel.  

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• 1-3-15
  

  How Should Historians Teach the Palestine-Israel Conflict? (Video)

  by Barbara Weinstein

  Even when teaching a class about Brazilian history, it can help to teach by analogy--and that can mean bringing in an example from history involving Israel. 

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• 1-3-15
  

  Historians Should Pressure Congress to Limit Aid to Israel (Video)

  by Linda Gordon

  The United States gives billions more to Israel than is acknowledged.

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• 1-3-15
  

  Israelis and Palestinians Can't Agree on History Because of the Power Imbalance Between Them (Video)

  by Joel Beinin

  Israel's offenses include the confiscation of the intellectual property of Palestinians -- and that's something historians need to debate.

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• 1-3-15
  

  It's Time for Historians to Explode the Myth of Israeli Exceptionalism (Video)

  by Leena Dallasheh

  To really understand Israel we need to remember it won its independence in a period of decolonization. 

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• 1-3-15
  

  Thomas Bender: The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual Since World War II (Video)

  by Thomas Bender

  Specialization is the rule of the day, but it's changed historians' capacity to reach a larger public. 

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• 1-3-15
  

  Public Debate Is Challenging for Historians but Worth the Effort (Video)

  by Ellen F. Fitzpatrick

  Historians like nuance.  The media want fast answers that are simple.  

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• 1-3-15
  

  How Public Historians Have Tried to Set the Record Straight in India About Muslims Destroying Hindu Temples (Video)

  by Partha Chatterjee

  In India Hindu right-wingers have demonized Muslim leaders who ruled for 7 centuries. Historians have tried to put their rule in context.