@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.