This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Diverse Issues in Higher Education
January 5, 2014
Public history was prominently featured at the meeting.
January 5, 2014
Elaine Carey is Associate Professor at St. John's University in Queens, NY and the vice-president for the AHA Teaching Division. Julia Brookins is the AHA's special projects coordinator. Both of them have played leading roles in the AHA's Tuning Project for undergraduate education.
January 5, 2014
In this interview, Kraut reflects on what historians can teach to policymakers... and how Ellis Island was as much a medical center as an immigration facility.
January 5, 2014
The GMU prof. discusses the future of online education and what the tech. world and historians can learn from each other.
January 5, 2014
Here, the Cornell University professor explains how American lurched to
war in Vietnam, and why Ho Chi Minh was a more complicated actor than
policymakers of the time understood.
January 5, 2014
by David Austin Walsh
The AHA is losing some of its long-time staffers, but has still had a remarkably successful 2013.
January 4, 2014
A partial list of other bloggers covering #aha2014.
January 4, 2014
by David Austin Walsh
Quantifying the Twittersphere at #aha2014
January 3, 2014
How the concept of human rights developed in the eighteenth century in a very different way than our idea of human rights in the twentieth and twenty-first.
January 3, 2014
Professor Grafton discusses the future of the printed book, and what
younger historians should know about the emerging field of digital
history.
January 3, 2014
December 26, 2013 was more than Boxing Day -- it was the 120th birthday of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
January 3, 2014
Sure, liberals might be disenchanted with Barack Obama, says Georgetown professor Michael Kazin, but then that's been true of every liberal president since FDR.
January 3, 2014
What options does the United States have in the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia? University of Texas history and public policy professor Jeremi Suri explains -- and clarifies his position on a possible pre-emptive strike on North Korea.
January 2, 2014
Richard R. John teaches at the Columbia Journalism School, where he specializes in the history of the political economy of communications in the United States. Here, Prof. John explains how network theory has transformed his field.
January 2, 2014
Yoni Appelbaum is a doctoral student at Brandeis University, and a columnist for The Atlantic. In this interview from the 2014 AHA annual meeting, he explains how he came to The Atlantic's attention, and talks about the future of digital history
January 2, 2014
by David Austin Walsh
According to an AHA panel, simply by doing what public historians do best: by building relationships with the local community.
January 2, 2014
History News Network editor David Austin Walsh sat down with AHA executive director Jim Grossman at the Wardman Park Marriott on New Year's Day to talk about the upcoming annual meeting
Source: NYT
December 31, 2013
A former North Carolina professor is accused of teaching dozens of barely existent or questionably led classes.
January 1, 2014
by David Austin Walsh
What to do and what to look for at the AHA annual meeting this year.
Source: New York Times
December 23, 2013
Mr. Eisenhower was an Army officer in World War II
and the Korean War and a national security adviser during his father’s
presidency.
