history in crisis 
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
4/8/19
Historical Society of Pennsylvania lays off 30 percent of its staff
The Historical Society cited operating deficits and a lack of financial stability as the reason for the layoffs.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/8/19
Thea Hunter: The Death of an Adjunct
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
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SOURCE: NY Review of Books
4/2/19
Are the Humanities History?
by Michael Massing
In the brave new world that is emerging, the humanities will have a critical part to play—provided that they themselves can adapt to it.
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4/2/19
What Historians Are Saying About the Academic Job Market
News and commentary on the state of the academic job market for historians.
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SOURCE: The Brown Daily Herald
4/1/19
Brown University suspends terminal master’s in history
The Department may revive program in future with extra year, stronger thematic focus.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/27/19
The Academy Is Unstable and Degrading. Historians Should Take Over the Government, Instead.
by Daniel Bessner
Were Mills and Chomsky correct to assume that radical intellectuals could have little effect on U.S. policy?
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SOURCE: New Yorker
2/4/19
Is a history degree only accessible to students at elite universities?
by Eric Alterman
For the past decade, on American campuses, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college. But at Ivy League schools, the major is thriving.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/28/19
The 2019 AHA Jobs Report
A Closer Look at Faculty Hiring
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
1/21/19
As STEM majors soar at UW, interest in humanities shrinks — a potentially costly loss
The number of students studying the humanities at the University of Washington is shrinking, with some majors down as much as 50 percent in a decade. It's having a financial impact, and also affecting the breadth of the university's expertise.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/6/19
What the Numbers Can Tell Us About Humanities Ph.D. Careers
by Emma Pettit
New programs seek to track the careers of PhD's and learn from the data.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
1/4/19
History Majors Are Becoming a Thing of the Past, Except in the Ivy League
by Marc Wortman
In the last decade, the number of students majoring in history at the nation’s colleges has plummeted, and it seemingly has nothing to do with the job market.
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1/5/19
History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed
by Kyla Sommers
What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses.
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