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Paul Putz Reports From AHA 2016 on American Religious Biography

John Fea   |  January 12, 2016

The reports from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta keep rolling in here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  Paul Putz is  Ph.D student in American history at Baylor University writing a very interesting dissertation on...

The Brendan Pietsch "Acknowledgments" Post Goes Viral

John Fea   |  January 11, 2016

Even Inside Higher Ed is talking about the acknowledgments section in Brendan Pietsch’s Dispensational Modernism.  The website has devoted an entire article to our post.  Here is a taste of Scott Jaschik’s report: John Fea, chair of history at Messiah College, was...

Storify: "Historians and the Public Square"

John Fea   |  January 10, 2016

AHA session #253.  Sunday morning, January 10, 2016. Speakers: William Jelani Cobb, Katherine Landdeck, Jonathan Zimmerman, and Yoni Appelbaum See Storified tweets here.  This was a great session....

More on Wheaton College

John Fea   |  January 10, 2016

Everyone is talking about Wheaton College.  I just got back from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta and it seemed like everyone I ran into wanted to chat about the Larycia Hawkins case. I had conversations...

Christian James on More Digital History at AHA 2016

John Fea   |  January 10, 2016

Here is Christian James‘s second post from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta.  For his previous posts from AHA 2016 click here.  -JF The last day at AHA 2016 included two solid digital...

AHA 2016 Fashions

John Fea   |  January 10, 2016

In case you have not seen it, Vanessa Holden has written a great post on the fashion choices made by the historians attending the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta. She identifies four styles:  The Classics The...

Amy Sopcak-Joseph: SHARP Things at AHA 2016

John Fea   |  January 10, 2016

Amy Sopcak-Joseph checks in with another dispatch from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta.  To read Sopcak-Joseph’s previous post at The Way of Improvement Leads Home click here.  –JF This conference has been...

AHA 2016: Day 3 Wrap-Up

John Fea   |  January 9, 2016

It was a busy day in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. This morning I went to the Conference on Faith and History breakfast.  It was good to see old friends and make some new ones....

Ana Stevenson: Dispatches from the Poster Session

John Fea   |  January 9, 2016

We are happy to have Ana Stevenson writing for us this weekend from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta.  Stevenson is a visiting scholar in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at...

Tweet of the Day

John Fea   |  January 9, 2016

David Blight describes @tanehisicoates’s Between World and Me partly as a memoir about becoming a historian. #aha16 — Caleb McDaniel (@wcaleb) January 9, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js...

This May Be the Best "Acknowledgments" Section of All Time

John Fea   |  January 9, 2016

This morning I finally made it to the book exhibit at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta.  (More on that in a later post). While browsing at the Oxford University Press booth I came across Brendan...

Day Two of AHA 2016 is in the Books

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

It was a good day at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta.  I spent the morning chatting with several friends and acquaintances over coffee.  The older I get in this profession it seems I spend less...

Paul Bartow Checks-In With A Few Session Reviews From AHA 2016

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

Paul Bartow is back with another post as Day 2 of the AHA conference comes to a close.  See his previous posts here.–JF After a great start to the AHA Conference yesterday, I was looking forward to day two. I...

Storify: The Intellectual Legacy of Mark A. Noll

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

I Storified my tweets here....

Paul Bartow on Digital History at AHA16

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

We are glad to have Paul Bartow writing for us this week in Atlanta.  This is Paul’s first visit to the AHA conference.  He currently works as an American history research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute.  Here is his...

Help the History News Network Get Back to the AHA

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

As I wrote in my post this morning, George Mason University is no longer funding the popular website History News Network.  As a result, Rick Shenkman, the editor and founder of HNN, is not in Atlanta for this year’s meeting...

AHA16: Day One Wrap-Up

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

The first day of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association  is in the books. I usually don’t do much on the first afternoon of the AHA meeting apart from getting settled-in.  I arrived in Atlanta around 3:30pm, checked...

Storify: "The Confederacy, Its Symbols, and the Politics of Public Culture"

John Fea   |  January 7, 2016

View the Storified tweets here from tonight’s plenary session....

We Have Landed in Atlanta

John Fea   |  January 7, 2016

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What You Can Expect From Our #AHA16 Coverage

John Fea   |  January 5, 2016

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...

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