American Historical Association

05/29/2026

Join the AHA and Wiki Education for Wikipedia as Pedagogy: How Students Are Shaping Historical Narratives and Opening Up Access, an AHA Online webinar on how faculty are incorporating Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy.

Panelists will discuss how and why they’ve adopted Wiki Education’s “Wikipedia assignment,” how this public-facing endeavor has affected their teaching, and how Wikipedia can help students develop a range of critical skills from research to AI-literacy.

📅 June 4
⏰ 1:00–2:00 p.m. ET

Featuring:

Maura Hametz (James Madison Univ.)
Allison Marsh (Univ. of South Carolina)
Jasmine Yarish (Univ. of the District of Columbia)
Moderated by Helaine Blumenthal (Wiki Education)

🎥 Free and open to the public

Can’t make it? Register anyway and view the recording after the event.

Wikipedia as Pedagogy: How Students Are Shaping Historical Narratives and Opening Up Access AHA Online and Wiki Education Thursday, June 4, 1–2 p.m. ET In this webinar, faculty will explore how how th...

05/28/2026

"Do colleges exist to prepare citizens who can think critically, empathize, and imagine? Or do they exist solely to deliver skills as efficiently as possible?"

In , John Fea examines the tension between AI and historical thinking on college campuses.

The tension between AI and the teaching of historical thinking reflects a larger question: What is the purpose of higher education?

05/28/2026

The 's new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, brings together 30 teaching modules exploring authoritarianism across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America.

Each module pairs primary sources with historical context, teaching plans, and additional resources to help students and educators explore key questions about authoritarianism across global history.

Start exploring today.

Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

05/27/2026

The deadline for select 2026 AHA teaching, public history, and equity awards has been extended to May 31. There’s still time to nominate a deserving historian, including yourself!

Awards for Publications These prizes honor exceptional books, articles, films, and digital works on a wide range of historical topics. All prizes are awarded annually except for those with dates, whic...

05/27/2026

Using data, articles, and other AHA resources, the AHA’s Department Advocacy Toolkit can help department chairs, faculty, administrators, academic advisers, career counselors, and students argue for the value of studying history.

The AHA has assembled this toolkit to help departments, administrators, advisers, and students navigate the AHA's library of resources to articulate the value of studying history.

05/26/2026

History provides critical context for understanding the technologies shaping public life today.

In this AHA program, historians offered perspectives on artificial intelligence directly with elected officials and congressional staff, providing historical context on privacy and national security issues that have been transformed by technology and now AI.

Watch the recording:

Technology Historians Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue), Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt), Aaron Mendon-Plasek (Purdue), and Rebecca Slayton (Cornell) discussed the history of artificial intelligence. This discussion was part of the American Historical Association's Congressional briefing series.

05/26/2026

Today is the last day to speak up in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Recent reorganizations at NLM, including the elimination of its History of Medicine Division, raise urgent concerns about preserving and maintaining access to the nation’s biomedical historical record.

The NIH is accepting public comments through today on its Strategic Plan for FY 2027–31. We encourage historians, researchers, educators, and advocates to submit comments and emphasize the importance of preserving access to this essential public resource.

Read the AHA’s comment: historians.org/news/aha-submits-comment-to-federal-register-in-support-of-national-library-of-medicine/

Submit comments by today: historians.org/news/action-alert-support-the-national-library-of-medicine/

Your voice matters--take action now. The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The ...

05/25/2026

This Memorial Day, we’re revisiting a 2021 piece by Kim Clarke on the Return of the Dead Program after World War II.

After the war, her widowed grandmother and “thousands of others insisted the government uphold a commitment it had made to military families for decades: to bring home its fallen soldiers.”

Grieving family members were instrumental in the creation of a federal program to rebury and repatriate the remains of fallen soldiers after World War II.

05/22/2026

She made history for decades. Now she has a degree in it.

Congratulations to Billie Jean King on earning her BA in history from from Cal State LA, 65 years after first enrolling.

05/22/2026

Looking for a dissertation on a particular topic? Curious about which students an adviser has mentored? Check out the AHA’s Directory of History Dissertations, which can be searched by school, adviser, title keywords, and more.

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05/22/2026

Presidential records are not just historical documents. They shape how future generations understand government, public policy, and American life.

Following the first hearing in the AHA’s lawsuit over the Presidential Records Act, AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel spoke with the New Yorker about why preserving those records matters.

As Weicksel explained: “What’s at stake is the ability of Americans in twenty, fifty years to have access to a full history of the United States.”

A post-Watergate law makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional.