Over at AHA Today, Christina Copland, a Ph.D candidate at University of Southern California, has a nice piece on summer archive work. Here is a taste: Larger archives are the watering holes of the history world. Some offer meet […]
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How to Fix the U.S. History Survey Course: “Reimagine Everything”
Last month a group of Texas history teachers gathered at Houston Community College to talk about introductory history courses. The event was sponsored by the American Historical Association and included keynote addresses by Steven Mintz (University of Texas at Austin), […]
What You Can Expect From Our #AHA16 Coverage
The Way of Improvement Leads Home will be in Atlanta later this week for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. We will be covering the conference from a variety of angles. At the moment, we have eleven correspondents […]
Historians Are Teachers
Jim Grossman, the Executive Director of the American Historical Association, believes that teaching is at the heart of what it means to be a historian. He is right. Ph.D programs must recognize this. Here is a taste of his recent […]
James Grossman: History for Patriotism
Jim Grossman In this month’s Perspectives on History, AHA Executive Director James Grossman describes why he thinks history education in the United States should be “patriotic.” I love his answer. Here is a taste: Whether history education should be “patriotic”…begins […]
*Why Study History* in the AHA’s *Perspectives on History*
Wow! We made it into the AHA’s Perspectives on History!Thanks to Perspectives on History editor Shatha Almutawa for devoting a significant chunk of her “endnote” editorial in the February 2015 issue to Why Study History?:Reflecting on the Importance of the […]
AHA 2015 Correspondents Wanted!
Once again, The Way of Improvement Leads Home is looking for writers/correspondents to report from this year’s (January 2015) American Historical Association Meeting in New York City. I am looking for readers who are going to the conference and might be interested in serving […]
$1.6 Million to Expand the Horizons of History Ph.Ds
Jim Grossman, Executive Director of the AHA Jim Grossman and his staff at the American Historical Association want to widen “the presence and influence of humanistic thinking in business, government, and non profits.” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation apparently agrees […]
Apply for the Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History
From AHA Today The American Historical Association offers the Michael Kraus Research Grants to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of […]
AHA Videos From 128th Annual Meeting
The American Historical Association has released several videos from its recent conference in Washington D.C. The History News Network has them posted here. Here is Kenneth Pomeranz’s Presidential Address: “Histories for a Less National Age.” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVei7p2x3I0?list=PLtafkoYGge2LZ5L-AVy6gBx0G5KOBFdEq] I am looking […]
My AHA Highlights
Unlike many historians who were stranded in Washington D.C. because of snow and ice, I managed to make it home from the AHA meeting yesterday with few problems. It took me an extra hour due to the icy roads, but […]
New Year’s Resolutions for Historians Attending the AHA
It looks like a new hashtag has emerged for AHA conference comedy: #AHAhaha2014. Check out this Storify page to read them all. Here are few to get you going:#AHA2014 resolution #1 Do not insult your scholarly rivals directly. Plant someone […]
AHA: What to Pack
If you don’t read Tenured Radical, you should. In this pre-AHA post she offers advice about what to pack and what not to pack. For example, she recommends packing your paper program (to read on the plane) electronic devices, business […]
Introducing Our AHA Team
Whether you will be in Washington D.C. this weekend for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, or have decided to take this year off, I want to invite you to check The Way of Improvement Leads Home regularly […]
Are You Interviewing at the AHA? Some Last Minute Tips
If you are on the job market and have been fortunate enough to land an interview at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association being held this weekend in Washington D.C., you may want to check out a few […]
AHA Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians!
The American Historical Association “cordially invites history bloggers and twitterstorians” to attend a reception in the Omni Hotel Governor’s Room on Thursday, January 2, 2014 from 5:30-7:00pm. What a great event! As Michelle Moravec recently tweeted: “I guess we’ve institutionalized.” […]
Why K-12 Teachers Should Attend the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting
I was just talking about the AHA’s annual meeting with my Teaching History course the other day. When I was starting out in the profession in the mid-1990s it was very rare to see school teachers roaming the halls of […]
Historical Habits of the Mind
Earlier this week I shared Kenneth Pomeranz’s December 2013 Perspectives on History column with the students in my “Teaching History” course at Messiah. I have really enjoyed teaching this course this semester. The students have been great. I appreciate how serious they are taking […]
The Many Careers of History Ph.Ds
The American Historical Association has just released a study of job outcomes for 2500 history PhDs (randomly chosen out of 10,976), all of whom received their degrees between 1998 and 2009. Here are some of the findings: Only two people […]
Still Looking for AHA Correspondents for Washington D.C.
Once again, The Way of Improvement Leads Home is looking for writers/correspondents to report from this year’s (January 2014) American Historical Association Meeting in Washington D.C. I am looking for readers who are going to the conference and might be interested in serving as […]