2/2 This award recognizes a historian for leadership and ongoing engagement at the intersection of historical scholarship, public culture, and social justice.
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@ucdavislaw.bsky.social2/2 This award recognizes a historian for leadership and ongoing engagement at the intersection of historical scholarship, public culture, and social justice.
@historians.org#EverythingHasAHistory, even rock fights!
In #AHAPerspectives, Robert Antony explores the history of ritualized rock fights in China's Canton Delta, a custom that persisted well into the 20th century.
@historians.orgThe AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2026 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.
Congratulations to the 2026 awardees! #AHAPerspectives
@historians.org"Teaching students how historians work, rather than simply what historians know, has proved a powerful pedagogical tool."
In #AHAPerspectives, Arminda Lawrence Sr. shares a class assignment that asks high school students to research, write, and edit their own history book.
@historians.orgHow can you teach a state’s "hard histories" when state laws ban divisive concepts?
In #AHAPerspectives, Katherine Perrotta and Leah Panther use place-based learning to engage students with the histories of Confederate monuments and race in Shermantown and Stone Mountain, Georgia.
@historians.org“If we don’t pay attention to history museums and historic sites...we miss out on key resources for our lives, our communities, and our nation.”
Revisit Caroline Klibanoff’s 2021 #AHAPerspectives article on history museums as vital civic spaces:
@historians.orgThe September #AHR is now available!
In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek at the latest issue, featuring new scholarship on Africa, Indonesia, the environment, and the family, plus a History Lab forum, History Unclassified essays, new #AHRSyllabus modules, and more.
@historians.orgThe Pacific Rim became a center of modern seismology in part because its frequent, powerful earthquakes gave scientists an extraordinary opportunity to study them.
In #AHAPerspectives, Cristián Castro explores how earthquakes reshaped the geography of scientific knowledge.
@historians.orgWhat can a seized gold necklace tell us about women’s economic independence in Senegal?
In #AHAPerspectives, summer columnist Becca Aponte traces how a dispute in colonial Senegal reveals the ways jewelry served as collateral, personal credit, and a marker of women’s social and economic status.
@baponte.bsky.socialWho doesn’t love some good old drama in the court records?! Thank you #AHAPerspectives for having me and sharing this work on ordinary women’s wearable wealth in colonial Senegal!
@historians.orgWhen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey came out this summer, many criticized its historical inaccuracies. In #AHAPerspectives, AHA president Suzanne Marchand recalls the same criticisms directed at an ancestral form of historical communication: history painting.
@historians.org“Working collectively to establish a union showed me concrete ways to move forward.”
This Labor Day, we’re revisiting Alexandra J. Finley’s 2022 #AHAPerspectives piece on joining the effort to organize a faculty union at the University of Pittsburgh.