2008

May

Grant of the Week: Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture - May 09

What We’re Reading: May 8, 2008 Edition - May 08

National History Center Revamps Website - May 07

An Appetite for History - May 06

Opinions Wanted – Perspectives Reader’s Survey - May 05

Grant of the Week: Award for Best Article in Urban History - May 02

What We’re Reading: May 1, 2008 Edition - May 01

April

Historians Included in the 2008 Class of Fellows - April 30

A Wise Guide, Eh? - April 29

Latest News from the National Coalition for History - April 28

Grant of the Week: Master’s Thesis Fellowship from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation - April 25

What We’re Reading: April 24, 2008 Edition - April 24

“Best of the Web” Awards Showcase Museum Web Sites - April 23

Women’s History Lesson Plans for Middle and High School Teachers - April 22

Teaching American History with a Global View - April 21

Grant of the Week: Stella Blum Research Grant from the Costume Society of America - April 18

What We’re Reading: April 17, 2008 Edition - April 17

Remembering April 16th - April 16

Historian Edward Ayers Inaugurated as University of Richmond President - April 15

Talking about the Future of the AHA - April 15

April Issue of Perspectives on History – Online - April 14

Grant of the Week: Mongolian Studies Research Fellowship - April 11

What We’re Reading: April 10, 2008 Edition - April 10

Newseum Re-opens April 11th - April 09

JSTOR Gets a New Look (and Much More) - April 08

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial from Footnote.com - April 07

Grant of the Week: World History Association Teaching Prize - April 04

What We’re Reading: April 3, 2008 Edition - April 03

Jobs and Careers in History - April 02

Revisiting the Carnival - April 01

March

History of Baseball - March 31

Grant of the Week: U.S. Professors of the Year Award - March 28

What We’re Reading: March 27, 2008 Edition - March 27

American Conversations with the Archivist of the United States - March 26

From the Archives: Why Can’t Historians Write? - March 25

Aluka – Free until June 2008 - March 24

Grant of the Week: Research Grants from the State Historical Society of Iowa - March 21

What We’re Reading: March 20, 2008 - March 20

Free access to History Compass for AHA Members - March 19

Civil War Preservation Trust Releases List of Ten Most Endangered Battlefields - March 18

JSTOR for all AHA Members - March 17

Grant of the Week: Junior Fellows Summer Internships at the Library of Congress - March 14

What We’re Reading: March 13, 2008 Edition - March 13

March 2008 Issue of Perspectives On History – Now Online - March 12

2008 Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships from the AHA - March 11

Humanities Advocacy Day and the NHA Conference - March 10

Grant of the Week: Patrick Henry Fellowship from the C.V. Starr Center - March 07

What We’re Reading: March 6, 2008 Edition - March 06

Are You Living in a Sundown Town? - March 05

A Virtual International Museum Conference - March 04

Resources for Creating Online Exhibits - March 03

February

Grant of the Week: SHAFR Dissertation Completion Fellowship - February 29

What We’re Reading: February 28, 2008 Edition - February 28

Developing Inequality – Presidential Address Now Online - February 27

History and Wells Fargo on the Web - February 25

Grant of the Week: Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences - February 22

What We’re Reading: February 21, 2008 Edition - February 21

AHA Objects to Destruction of Guantanamo Records - February 20

Show Your Work - February 19

Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology - February 15

What We’re Reading: February 14, 2008 Edition - February 14

Gutenberg-e Books Now Available Open Access and through ACLS Humanities E-Book - February 13

Perspectives on History Online – February 2008 Issue - February 13

Archives Wiki Now Available - February 12

Sizeable Response on Review Board Issue - February 11

Grant of the Week: PEAES Dissertation Fellowships from the Library Company of Philadelphia - February 08

What We’re Reading: February 7, 2008 Edition - February 07

Secrecy Film Debuts at Sundance - February 06

Doing Public History U.K. Style - February 05

Constitutional Changes Ratified by AHA Members - February 04

Insights into the Archives - February 01

Grant of the Week: History of Space Science Fellowship - February 01

January

AHA Petitions for the Release of Rosenberg Files - January 31

What We’re Reading: January 31, 2008 Edition - January 31

Google Experiments with Search - January 30

This Month in History - January 29

From the Archives: Reel History - January 28

Grant of the Week: Research Grants for AHA Members - January 25

NARA Seeks Executive Director - January 24

What We’re Reading: January 24, 2008 Edition - January 24

January 2008 Issue of Perspectives on History - January 23

History and Gaming: Beyond Oregon Trail - January 22

Bullish on History - January 21

2007 Prizes and Awards - January 18

Grant of the Week: Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas - January 18

What We’re Reading: January 17, 2008 Edition - January 17

Public History at the Annual Meeting - January 16

Open Forum on Disability - January 16

Digital History at the Annual Meeting - January 15

The 2008 Job Register: By the Numbers - January 14

American Historical Association and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University Announce New Prize - January 14

Members Vote on Revisions to AHA Constitution - January 11

Grant of the Week: Save Our History Grant Program from The History Channel - January 11

What We’re Reading: Annual Meeting Edition - January 10

Short Blog Hiatus - January 06

Sunday Overview – 122nd Annual Meeting - January 06

The 2008 General Meeting – Presidential Address - January 05

The 2008 General Meeting – Prizes and Awards - January 05

Saturday Overview – 122nd Annual Meeting - January 05

Opening of the 122nd Annual Meeting - January 04

Advocating for History - January 04

Friday Overview – 122nd Annual Meeting - January 04

Thursday Overview – 122nd Annual Meeting - January 03

2007

December

Gearing Up for 122nd Annual Meeting - December 31

Grant of the Week: African American History Grant Program from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities - December 28

What We’re Reading: December 27, 2007 Edition - December 27

AHA Asks for Oral History Exclusion - December 27

Away for the Holidays - December 24

Grant of the Week: Dissertation Fellowships from the U.S. Army Center of Military History - December 21

What We’re Reading: December 20, 2007 Edition - December 20

Housing for the 122nd Annual Meeting – New Block of Rooms Added - December 19

Academic Careers Wiki Hacked - December 19

The Visible Past Project - December 18

Final Week for Preregistration Rates - December 17

ICHS/CISH Deadline Extended to January 15, 2008 - December 14

Grant of the Week: Long-Term Fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library - December 14

What We’re Reading: December 13, 2007 Edition - December 13

Perspectives Online, December 2007 - December 12

Precirculated Papers for the 122nd Annual Meeting - December 11

Housing for the 122nd Annual Meeting – New Block of Rooms Added - December 10

MIT for High Schoolers - December 10

Grant of the Week: Air and Space Museum Fellowship in U.S. Naval Flight History - December 07

What We’re Reading: December 6, 2007 Edition - December 06

AHR Online at its New Home at University of Chicago Press - December 05

reCAPTCHA: Digitizing Books and Saving the World from Form Spam - December 04

International Tracing Service Opens Holocaust Archive to the Public - December 03

AHA Now Accepting Electronic Proposals for the 123rd Annual Meeting - December 03

November

Grant of the Week: Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship from the YIVO Institute - November 30

What We’re Reading: November 29, 2007 Edition - November 29

From the Archives: Preparing for the Job Register - November 28

C-SPAN’s Q & A - November 27

Early Deadline for the Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations - November 26

Grant of the Week: Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History - November 23

What We’re Reading: November 22, 2007 Edition - November 22

House History - November 21

The American Historical Review – October Issue Online - November 20

Results of 2007 AHA Election - November 19

Grant of the Week: Study Invention and Innovation with a Lemelson Center Fellowship - November 16

What We’re Reading: November 15, 2007 Edition - November 15

November Perspectives: Mentors, CISH, Annual Meeting, and More - November 14

Library of Congress Celebrates Native American Heritage Month on the Web - November 13

Grant of the Week: Fellowships from the White House Historical Association - November 09

What We’re Reading: November 8, 2007 Edition - November 08

Deadline for Reserving Space in the Job Register is November 15 - November 07

The Feds and IRBs: Your Opportunity to Weigh in - November 06

NPS Director Welcomes New Chief Historian and Sees a Future of Sharing History - November 05

AHR Online in Transition - November 02

Interdisciplinary Study Gets New Push from Mellon Foundation - November 02

Grant of the Week: Fellowships for Research in China from ACLS - November 02

The AHA’s Annual Report for 2006 - November 01

The Annual Meeting Program is Now Online! - November 01

What We’re Reading: November 1, 2007 Edition - November 01

October

Interactive Maps for the AHA’s 122nd Annual Meeting - October 31

The Illinois State Archives Supports Teaching through Primary Sources - October 30

Library of Congress and Xerox to Team Up on Digital Formats - October 29

Update: Federal Funding for National History Day - October 26

Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowships from the National Academy of Education - October 26

What We’re Reading: October 25, 2007 Edition - October 25

Survey Reveals Surprising Number of Missing Items at the Library of Congress - October 24

Over One Million Civil War Pension Applications to be Digitized - October 24

"Celebrating Research" with the Association of Research Libraries - October 23

Federal Funding for National History Day? - October 22

Grant of the Week: Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors - October 19

October Perspectives: Full to the Brim - October 18

What We’re Reading: October 18, 2007 Edition - October 18

A Plethora of Lesson Plans at EDSITEment - October 17

AHA Constitutional Change Process Continues - October 16

2008 Job Register Now Accepting Reservations - October 15

Perusing the Calendar - October 15

Roy Rosenzweig, 1950—2007 - October 12

Grant of the Week: Doctoral Fellowships from the Japan Foundation - October 12

2008 Teaching American History Grants - October 11

What We’re Reading: October 11, 2007 Edition - October 11

AHA President Barbara Weinstein Gives Talk at UNL - October 10

UC Berkeley Shares Courses Through Webcasts and iTunes - October 09

Grant of the Week: Junior Fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks - October 05

GMU Awarded $7.5 Million for National History Education Clearinghouse - October 04

What We’re Reading: October 4, 2007 Edition - October 04

History Graduate Students’ Resources Page Gets Updated and Redesigned - October 03

Federal Judge Invalidates Order Allowing Former Presidents to Withhold Records - October 02

Visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture Online - October 02

Discussion Open on AHA Constitution Changes - October 01

September

Happy Birthday AHA Today! - September 28

Grant of the Week: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants - September 28

National Book Festival this Saturday - September 27

What We’re Reading: September 27, 2007 Edition - September 27

Remembering the Little Rock Crisis in Documents - September 26

MacArthur Fellowship Awarded to Historian Jay Rubenstein - September 26

Edsitement Provides Resources for National Hispanic Heritage Month - September 26

Smithsonian TV to Debut - September 25

Carlyle Letters Online - September 25

Preregister Now for the 122nd Annual Meeting - September 24

Grant of the Week: Summer Stipends for the Study of American Christianity from the Louisville Institute - September 21

What We’re Reading - September 20

Today In History - September 18

Exploring the Nation’s Capitol Online - September 17

Grant of the Week: Grants from the International Research & Exchanges Board - September 14

Bibliography Built Right In - September 13

September Perspectives: Lessons from Iwo Jima - September 13

Wither H-Net? - September 12

Celebrating 40 Years of Preserving the Past at the LoC - September 11

KGB Documents Revealed Online - September 10

Grant of the Week: Digital Humanities Fellowship from Stanford - September 07

Asia for Educators - September 06

Now Online: History Department Evaluators - September 05

Housing for the 122nd Annual Meeting Opens Today! - September 04

August

Grant of the Week: Senior Fellowships from the National Gallery of Art - August 31

Robert K. Sutton selected as Chief Historian, National Park Service - August 30

Experience “Turning the Pages” at the British Library Online - August 30

What’s New on the Calendar? - August 29

Tracked in America - August 28

Historical Moments Captured in the Newseum’s Front Page Archive - August 27

Grant of the Week: Over $2 Million up for Grabs in the Digital Media and Learning Competition - August 24

Finding the Right Word: New AHA Policies for Adding and Deleting Membership Categories - August 23

Tickets Still Available for “A Day with James McPherson” - August 22

Who Wields the Red Pen? - August 21

National History Center Posts Online Videos of Presentations - August 20

Grant of the Week: Pursue “Change” with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from PHF - August 17

Get the Feed from the Library of Congress - August 16

Recent Updates from the National Coalition for History - August 15

Member News Wanted - August 14

National History Center Collects Surveys to Study the History Major and Liberal Education - August 13

Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowships from Columbia University - August 10

The Red Pen of Truth? - August 09

AP African American History and the Minority Question in History - August 08

Preparing for the National Park Services Second Century: George Wright Society Introduces Essay Series on the National Park Service - August 07

BlackPast.org – An Online Gateway to African American History - August 06

Grant of the Week: John H. Daniels Fellowship from the National Sporting Library - August 03

Pells Bells: The End of Cultural History? - August 02

Smithsonian Fires Gary Beer - August 02

The National Archives Opens its Vaults to Amazon - August 02

History on the Digital Margins - August 01

July

University Libraries Embrace Print-On-Demand Partnerships - July 31

"No Child" Leaves the Social Studies Behind - July 30

Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities - July 27

DSpace – The Future of Online Archives? - July 26

From the Archives: GI Roundtable Revisited - July 25

Crawford Young Gives Free Lecture on the African Colonial State - July 24

The Journey of a Thousand Miles: New Findings on Attrition from History Ph.D. Programs - July 23

Waskar Ari Finally Wins Visa - July 20

Grant of the Week: New Guggenheim Fellowship for Constitutional Studies - July 20

Doc of the Day - July 19

Accessing the Government Online - July 18

James McPherson Awarded the First Pritzker Award - July 17

Preserving Blogs - July 16

Grant of the Week: Hiett Prize in the Humanities - July 13

PhDinHistory is Back - July 12

Nobel Peace Prize Curriculum Available on the Web - July 12

From the Archives: The National Park Service - July 11

Nixon Library Tears Down Watergate Exhibit to Build Anew - July 10

A Sudden End to PhDinHistory - July 09

Dog Days in D.C.: Some Things Never Change - July 08

Upcoming Public Lecture from the National History Center - July 06

Grant of the Week: Jacob K. Javits Fellowships - July 06

Dept. of Education Seeks Panel Reviewers for Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program - July 05

June Issue of the American Historical Review Online Now - July 03

Old Pictures Get New Life on Shorpy - July 02

June

Grant of the Week: Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs - June 29

CIA Releases "Family Jewels" on Agency Web Site - June 27

BibMe: Build Bibliographies in a Couple of Clicks - June 26

Yellow Pages for the Academic Blogosphere - June 25

CIA to Release Decades of Dirty Laundry - June 22

Grant of the Week: Fellowship from the Historic New Orleans Collection - June 22

Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright - June 21

Overhaul at the Smithsonian - June 20

Feeling the Pressure: A Report from the AAUP Meeting - June 19

AHA President Participates in Discussion on Visa Problems of Foreign Scholars - June 18

Chicago Journals partners with American Historical Association to publish American Historical Review - June 18

National History Day Winners Announced - June 15

Grant of the Week: World History Paper Prize - June 15

Where Do We Go from Here? Reinvigorating Historical Education - June 14

From the Archives: Reflections on a PhD in History - June 13

Visiting Ancient Rome via the Web - June 12

Time for a Second Opinion: PhDinHistory - June 11

Archivist Discovers Long-lost Lincoln Letter - June 08

Grant of the Week: NEH Humanities Collections and Resources Grants - June 08

National History Day Contest Commences at the Univ. of Maryland this Weekend - June 07

Remembering D-Day - June 06

AHA Council Supports Statement Against Detention of Scholars in Iran - June 05

AHA Council Endorses NCHE Statement on Teacher Qualifications - June 05

Public History Defined? - June 05

National History Center Assembles Conference on “Reforming History Education” - June 04

Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Bursaries from the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies - June 01

May

Electronic Archive of Charles Darwin's Correspondence Now Available - May 31

Aperture Foundation Photograph Exhibits - May 30

Ancestry.com Makes Military Records Open to the Public Until June 6, 2007 - May 29

Upcoming Colloquium: “A Day With James McPherson” - May 29

Grant of the Week: ECHO Digital History Grants - May 25

Upcoming Conference Focuses on Tribal Cultural Preservation - May 24

Holocaust Memorial Museum to Receive Electronic Documents from International Tracing Service Archives - May 23

In Memoriam Eugen Weber, 1925–2007 - May 22

"American Heritage" to Become History? - May 21

NAEP’s History Lesson - May 18

Grant of the Week: American Society for Legal History Dissertation Prize - May 18

In Memory of Alfred D. Chandler Jr.: 1918-2007 - May 18

Historian David Nasaw Honored at Weekend with History - May 17

New Fund for Oral History of Physicists in Industry - May 16

High-School History Text Divides Cambodians - May 15

History Teachers Association in Europe Asks for Better Leave Policy - May 14

Grant of the Week: Economic History Association Dissertation Awards - May 11

From the Archives: History and Technology - May 10

May Perspectives: History and the Changing Landscape of Information - May 09

Bolivian Historian One Step Closer to Obtaining a Visa - May 08

Off the Record… - May 07

The AHA Remembers: Robert M. Warner - May 04

Grant of the Week: American Studies Association Dissertation Prize - May 04

Promoting Progress: Register for this Interactive Workshop - May 03

Archiving Tragedy, Promoting Healing - May 02

Food for the Intellect - May 02

New Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Include Historians - May 01

Now Online: The April Issue of the American Historical Review - May 01

April

Google Books: What’s Not to Like? - April 30

Grant of the Week: Baylor University Oral History Research Fellowship - April 27

Lessons from the Poop Deck - April 26

Bancroft Prize Winners Announced - April 25

The Library of Congress Joins the Blogosphere - April 25

National Coalition for History Launches New Web Site - April 24

Grant of the Week: Fellowships from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - April 20

Library of Congress, PBS, and Ken Burns Team Up to Gather Oral Histories - April 19

Gettysburg Foundation Flooded with Greenbacks - April 18

"Let the Sunshine In" with the April Issue of Perspectives - April 17

New York Times Archives 1851 to present - April 16

Grant of the Week: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Dissertation Fellowship - April 13

The American Tax Tradition - April 12

Come One, Come All, To The History Carnival - April 12

Time to Update Your Directory Listing - April 11

AHA Members among New Guggenheim Fellows - April 10

Check out the Latest News from the National Coalition for History - April 09

Grant of the Week: Research Seminar on Constitutionalism - April 06

Japanese History Texts Draw Fire from China and Korea - April 06

The Raw Data on Graduate Programs - April 05

Communist Party USA Donates Papers to NYU - April 04

Archiving Hurricane Memories - April 03

New Features at JSTOR - April 02

March

New Petition Against Florida's Definition of History - March 30

Grant of the Week: American Institute of Physics - March 30

New Exhibit at the National Archives Explores the Early Education of Presidents - March 29

Major European Library Joins Google Book Search - March 28

First Drafts of History at Your Fingertips - March 27