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Maurice Prendergast's Mer d'Opale (Opal Sea), which he painted between between 1907 and 1910. Credit: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

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Staff

Allen Mikaelian, editor
Shatha Almutawa, associate editor

Featured Articles

A sunset over a city.

July 22, 2014

Viewpoints

A Little Spying between Friends

From the AHA

June 2014 Issue

July 9, 2014

AHA Activities

What’s in the June 2014 AHR?

Other Articles

Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Roundtable: Historians Weigh in on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 23, 2014

Birth Control and Hobby Lobby
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Cultural Divisions Take Center Stage
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

“We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident, That All Corporations Are Created Equal”
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Property v. Liberty
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 5, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Roundtable: National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 4, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

CIA’s Draft History of the Bay of Pigs
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 4, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Black Holes in the Predecisional Universe
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 4, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Cuban Memory Wars

July 2, 2014

News

Teaching Undergraduates: A Conversation in Brooklyn
LBJ with a little boy and a basket of puppies.

June 27, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: President Johnson and a Basket Of Puppies
sam-white

June 25, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Sam White

June 23, 2014

Perspectives Daily

The Buddha Born and Reborn in Western Imagination

June 20, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: G.O.P. National Convention (1916) Featuring Uncle Sam, Mini Uncle Sam & Chin-Chin
Michael B. Kahan

June 18, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Michael B. Kahan

June 17, 2014

Perspectives Daily

At the Venice Biennale: A History of Globalization and Modernism in New Zealand’s Architecture Pavilion
Tommies play football with a gas masks

June 13, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Goooaaaaaaaaaaaal!
Stephen A. Berrey

June 11, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Stephen A. Berrey
Congressional briefing held by the National History Center on intelligence

June 11, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Overseeing Intelligence: Historians Brief Congress on Its Past Relationship with the Intelligence Community

June 10, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Action Items by the AHA Council
Dr. Michele Bambling (photograph by Juliette Bisset)

June 10, 2014

Perspectives Daily

History and Modernity in the Arabian Peninsula

June 9, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Historians Named among the 2014 American Academy in Berlin Fellows, ACLS Public Fellows, and the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
Two-men-carrying-a-woman

June 6, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: A Helping Hand
Google search engine

June 5, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Historians and the Potential Consequences of the “Right to be Forgotten” Ruling
Lucy Chester

June 4, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Lucy Chester

June 3, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

MY AHA Temporarily Down
Jiang Jun

June 2, 2014

Perspectives Daily

At the 2014 Venice Biennale: China’s Encounter with Modernity, 1914-2014
Daniel Vivian

July 30, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Daniel Vivian
Magnificent Century Still

July 29, 2014

Magnificent Century: Historical Turkish Soap Opera Finds a Global Audience
two astronauts holding Soviet space food

July 25, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Mind over Matter in a World of Dull Space Foods
David Brion Davis

July 24, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Historians Named among 2013 National Humanities Medalists
Interfolio Logo

July 24, 2014

AHA Activities

Interfolio ByCommittee for AHA Members
Sandy Hyatt

July 23, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Sandy Hyatt
WWI soldiers dancing and celebrating

July 18, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Can Cancan!

July 17, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Tuning and Teaching History as an Ethical Way of Being in the World

July 16, 2014

Perspectives Daily

House Committee Supports the Humanities (after a little nudge)
Kimberley Reilly

July 16, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Kimberley Reilly
Thin lines of light in green, blue, and yellow in a curved shape against the night sky.

July 15, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

July 9, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Teaching Undergraduates: A Conversation in Brooklyn
a group of students

July 9, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Yuen-Gen Liang
Charles Stuart Kennedy Jr.

July 8, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Creator of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection Receives American Diplomacy Award

July 7, 2014

Perspectives Daily

The AHA Responds to the Relocation of the National Archives for Black Women’s History
Senators Strom Thumond of South Carolina and Richard Russell of Georgia opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office

July 2, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Writing the “Rough Draft”: Veteran Journalists Discuss the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Michael-Ryan

July 2, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Michael A. Ryan
The AHA Townhouse

July 2, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

New Position at the AHA: Programs Manager
Cowboy Joe in his steed

August 29, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Supersonic Cowboy Joe
Ellen Spears

August 27, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ellen Griffith Spears
White House renovation, 1950

August 22, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: The Shell of the White House During 1950 Renovation

August 21, 2014

Perspectives Daily

AHA Statement of Support for Revised Framework for Advanced Placement U.S. History
Christopher R. Friedrichs

August 20, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Christopher R. Friedrichs

August 19, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Action Needed: Support the Durbin Bill to Expand Student Loan Forgiveness Program to Adjunct Faculty

August 18, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Help Us Update Our Taxonomy of the Discipline

August 15, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: WPA Dinosaur Park

August 14, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Hiring: Associate Editor, Web Content and Social Media
Ruth Ben-Ghiat

August 13, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

August 12, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Repairs in Progress

August 11, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Two AHA Members Win Prizes from William and Mary Quarterly for Distinguished Articles

August 8, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Carrying the Banner

August 6, 2014

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ryan E. Messenger
Humor Postcard, Potato; Humor Postcard, Corn

August 1, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Everything Is Bigger In Texas

News

August 13, 2014

News

A History of the Persian Language at the Exhibit A Thousand Years of the Persian Book