Research & Publications
For more than a century, the AHA has worked to strengthen the study and teaching of history; to address the common concerns of the historical community; to represent the profession in policy matters; to provide timely and systematic coverage of research developments; and to disseminate new scholarship and information for its application in a variety of ways. The AHA's diverse publishing program serves these efforts in the advancement of history.
In addition to Perspectives on History and the American Historical Review, the AHA produces a wide variety of publications, including a number of annual directories, bibliographies and online resources, reports and surveys, as well as individual booklets that address professional concerns. AHA booklets are distributed through Oxford University Press.
Perspectives on History
For the past 50 years, Perspectives on History (published as Perspectives—ISSN: 0743-7021—until December 2007) has been the principal source for news and information about the historical profession. Published monthly during the academic year, Perspectives on History offers articles and commentary on teaching, computers and software, history in the media, museum exhibitions, and archives and research. Also includes the most comprehensive current listings of employment openings and historical activities, both within and outside academia.
Perspectives on History (ISSN: 1940-8048) is published nine months out of the year (September to May) by the American Historical Association. Material from the printed version appears in Perspectives Daily (ISSN: 1556-8563), the electronic newsmagazine of the association.
American Historical Review
The American Historical Review (AHR) is an official publication of the American Historical Association. Since 1895, the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States—the only journal that brings together scholarship from every major field and geographic area of historical study. The AHR is published quarterly.
Where Historians Work
Where Historians Work is an interactive, online database that catalogs the career outcomes of historians who earned PhDs at universities in the United States from 2004 to 2017. Powered by Tableau, Where Historians Work provides the fullest picture of PhD careers available for any discipline. This tool allows current and potential graduate students to understand the full scope of career options open to history PhDs and to research which departments best fit their values and goals, enables departments to better meet the professional development needs of their doctoral students, and documents the broad impact of doctoral education in history.
History in Focus
History in Focus is a podcast by the American Historical Review. Go behind the scenes with the world's leading history journal as we explore the who, what, how, and why of doing history in the 21st century. Each month, the latest AHR issue will be the jumping off point for a deeper dive into historical content and practice, highlighting the work of historians and other scholars who work in and outside of the academy.
AHA Reads Summer Reading Challenge
In our busy lives, it can be difficult to find time to read for fun-or to read at all! Yet one of the most enjoyable parts of our work as historians is reading scholarship about the past and discussing that work with others. To incentivize historians to carve out space for reading in their schedules this summer, the AHA presents the Summer Reading Challenge.
Remote Teaching Resources
The AHA’s Remote Teaching Resources compiles materials and tools to help historians develop courses and teach remotely in online and hybrid environments.
History, the Past, and Public Culture: Results from a National Survey
With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the AHA partnered with Fairleigh Dickinson University to develop and implement a national survey to assess public perceptions of, and engagement with, the discipline of history and the past.
Booklets
Since the 1950s, the AHA has published booklets that address a diversity of topics to serve the needs of history students and historians in all professions. Publications include overviews and syntheses of current historical topics and fields, guides to teaching and learning in history, and career advice for history graduates.