Calling all graduate students!
The AHA is looking for three grad students to contribute a pair of columns each for online publication in #AHAPerspectives. This is a great opportunity to develop your writing, share your work as a historian, and connect with a broad public audience.
Apply by 4/27:
William Cohoon once thought "the pursuit of scholarship could occur only in a tenure-track role at a top-tier university." Now a secondary teacher, he finds that teaching K–12 sharpens his research and makes it more accessible, transforming how he approaches scholarship. #AHAPerspectives
From #AHAPerspectives in 2016: The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) provides "accessible digitized materials related to transgender history gathered from collections across the world." Read more on its scope by Sadie Bergen. 🗃️ #TransDayofVisibility
Grad students: want to publish your work and grow your voice as a historian?
The AHA is selecting three grad students to write two columns each for online publication in #AHAPerspectives. It’s a chance to sharpen your writing and reach a wide audience.
🗓 Apply by April 27
From #AHAPerspectives in 2018: During the 1906 World Series, umpires used gestures to call the game for the first time. Rebecca Edwards explained how deaf @mlb.com player William Ellsworth “Dummy” Hoy brought umpires’ signs into the game. 🗃️
In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek of the March issue of the #AHR, including articles on Indigenous resistance, child removal, the intertwining of history writing and politics, and the genealogy of the word nakba. 🗃️
@bryanbanksphd.bsky.social pitches me the best pedagogy pieces. Don't miss the latest in #AHAPerspectives!
What happens when you throw a cannonball off the second floor in a history class? In #AHAPerspectives, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social makes the case for incorporating “mnemonic moments” in the classroom. 🗃️
In #AHAPerspectives, @profmarylewis.bsky.social describes a classroom assignment where students "update" French protest posters from May 1968, confronting how easily images can be manipulated and decontextualized. 🗃️
The AHA Nominating Committee offers candidates for offices of the Association, to be filled in the 2026 election. Voting by AHA members will begin June 1. #AHAPerspectives 🗃️
In #AHAPerspectives, Anna Snyder considers how lawyers can join historians in shaping public conversations about the United States’ 250th anniversary—and reconnect legal history to the story of the founding. 🗃️
Versatile, adaptable, and ready to step into many roles. In #AHAPerspectives, AHA director of teaching and learning Brendan Gillis argues that history majors are the utility infielders of the workforce baseball team. 🗃️
@bryanbanksphd.bsky.social always bring us great pedagogical pieces. Check out his latest in #AHAPerspectives.
From policy advocacy to AI, innovative teaching, and preparing for the semiquincentennial, #AHA26 sparked a weekend of dynamic conversation. With 500+ sessions in Chicago, discussions were wide-ranging and forward-looking. Read the full recap in #AHAPerspectives.
From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: Lawrence Reddick was "one of a generation of scholars working during the Jim Crow era who laid the groundwork for modern Black history," wrote David A. Varel on Reddick's career and segregation in the historical discipline. 🗃️
For further historical perspective, @nelsonhist.bsky.social writes in #AHAPerspectives about earlier moments when US government actions reshaped international trade and finance: “In all four cases, the result was not recessions but depressions.” 🗃️
From #AHAPerspectives in 2018: Zoe Jackson reported on the history behind spring baseball training, "a history of both business and media." She also described how Jim Crow affected some teams' spring training decisions in the 1950s. 🗃️
Sue Kozel served as a sworn expert history witness as part of a planning board application to build warehouses within 1,000 feet of a designated historic district in her neighborhood. “In cases like this, the historical evidence can itself be the guide for discussion & argument.” #AHAPerspectives 🗃️
From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: Paul Droubie discusses the "confluence of issues—war, austerity, nationalism, and international opposition—that caused Tokyo, and in reality, Japan, to withdraw its offer to host the games and forfeit the 1940 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
In #AHAPerspectives, @ksalex10.bsky.social and @jlepler.bsky.social share how they introduced the humanities to an elementary school’s annual STEAM night through an interactive butter-churning activity. 🗃️
In #AHAPerspectives, @slitrel.bsky.social shared her experiences teaching in a lifelong learning program, where students of age 50+ get excited about history they never learned or even revisit events from their own lifetimes. 🗃️
Last week, we published articles at #AHAPerspectives on teaching history outside of history departments. This week, we have another fun pairing.
In #AHAPerspectives, Suzanne M. Litrel describes teaching history to students in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, “reaching out to older learners in a low-stakes environment, I’ve found, rekindles or even jump-starts their love of history.” 🗃️
From #AHAPerspectives in 2018: Zita Cristina Nunes described how Dorothy Porter successfully built @howard.edu's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, one of the world’s leading repositories for Black history and culture, and the legacy of her work for contemporary scholars. 🗃️
The Long Overdue Project at #AHAPerspectives aims to publish obituaries for historians of color whose passing the AHA did not mark. Learn more about the project, read the tributes, and contact us if you'd like to contribute 🗃️:
In #AHAPerspectives, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social shares how she approaches teaching history to her nursing students. “Students need to learn a broad conception of history that explores the economic and political forces that shape their patients’ lives, as well as their own profession.” 🗃️
And @drkyliesmith.bsky.social writes about how essential it is for nursing and other prehealth students to understand the history of the healthcare system they will be working in. #AHAPerspectives 🗃️
In #AHAPerspectives, we have two paired pieces this week about the value of teaching history to students outside history departments.
First up is Kelly Schrum, who teaches history of higher education to graduate students in a higher education and student affairs program. 🗃️
In #AHAPerspectives, historian Kelly Shrum writes about teaching student affair professionals the history of higher education. 🗃️
