Perspectives
Apr 17, 2024 - Who Is in Charge of History Curricula?
The AHA’s Mapping the Landscape project has found that teachers are facing a perennial question.
Apr 16, 2024 - Tracking Undergraduate History Enrollments in 2023
Read the results of the AHA’s 2023 survey of undergraduate history enrollments.
Apr 11, 2024 - Embodied Knowledge
What can a third grader teach a historian about her craft?
Apr 10, 2024 - Archival Shouting
Some collections of historical sources have been given a microphone, with profound consequences for the practices of history.
Apr 09, 2024 - Teaching LGBTQ+ History
As states pass legislation targeting DEI efforts, one historian offers her experience teaching LGBTQ+ history in these challenging times.
Apr 03, 2024 - Listening to Our Subjects and Ourselves
An empathetic connection can be one of a historian’s most valuable tools.
Apr 02, 2024 - Have Etymology—Will Travel
Have you ever wondered where the word freelancer comes from?
Mar 27, 2024 - The Haimish Hotel
The glory days of the “Borscht Belt” may have passed, but memories and the occasional building remain.
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Apr 18, 2024 - AHA Members Awarded 2024 NEH Grants (April 2024)
Congratulations to the 12 AHA members who were selected as recipients for grants to support humanities projects from the National Endowment for the…
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Apr 18, 2024 - AHA Executive Director Quoted in Huffington Post Article on Florida Law Requiring Schools to Teach “Evils of Communism” (April 2024)
AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in a Huffington Post article by Lydia O’Connor on a new Florida law that requires K–12…
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Apr 17, 2024 - AHA Members Awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships (April 2024)
Congratulations to AHA members Brian A. Catlos (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), Carol E. Harrison (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia), Tiya A. Miles…
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Apr 08, 2024 - AHA Member Receives Award in French History for American Historical Review Article (April 2024)
Congratulations to AHA member Lauren R. Clay (Vanderbilt Univ.), whose article “Liberty, Equality, Slavery: Debating the Slave Trade in…
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Apr 08, 2024 - AHA Members Awarded 2024 ACLS Fellowships (April 2024)
Congratulations to the eight AHA members who were awarded 2024 ACLS Fellowships: Bobby Cervantes (Harvard Univ.), Robert Franco (Kenyon Coll.),…
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Apr 02, 2024 - AHA Executive Director Appears on SpeechMatters Podcast to Discuss Divisive Concepts (April 2024)
AHA executive director Jim Grossman appeared on SpeechMatters, the official podcast of the University of California National Center for Free…
Teaching History with Integrity
The AHA, its members, and other historians find ourselves on the front lines of a conflict over America’s past, confronting opponents who are actively promoting ignorance in service of misleading notions of unity. Through Teaching History with Integrity, the AHA leads or participates in several initiatives to provide resources and support for history educators facing intensifying controversies about the teaching of the American past. Historians have a crucial role to play as participants in public deliberations about how to engage students in truthful and rigorous inquiry in history classrooms.
The Pacific Coast Branch (PCB) of the American Historical Association was organized in 1903 to serve members of the American Historical Association living in the Western States of the United States and the Western Provinces of Canada. All members of the AHA living in those areas, therefore, are also members of the Branch.
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. The AHA is a trusted voice advocating for history education, the professional work of historians, and the critical role of historical thinking in public life.
As a member, your dues support these and other initiatives:
- Revising introductory history courses to serve students from all backgrounds and prepare them for life in a complex society
- Rethinking doctoral education in history to improve student experience and increase historians’ impact within and beyond the academy
- Creating resources to support high school and college history teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Working to ensure the preservation of records and historians' access to archives