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The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️

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Congratulations to AHA member Ethan Pollock, who has been named the new deal of the College at Brown University, where he will oversee Brown’s undergraduate programs. 🗃️

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The AHA’s Guidelines on Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship lay the foundation for expanding what constitutes historical scholarship & can be adapted to any institution in which historians work & where historical scholarship is expected. 🗃️

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The AHA’s American Lesson Plan report was featured in an EdSurge article about current obstacles that history teachers face in the US: “K–12 history teachers are feeling a frustrating sense that people outside the classroom don’t respect what they do.” 🗃️

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Most @njit.bsky.social students are unaware that a campus corner "was once a bustling checkpoint along the Morris Canal, a now-forgotten 100-mile, man-made water highway." Miriam F. Ascarelli shares the story of this waterway in #AHAPerspectives. #EverythingHasAHistory 🗃️

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Proud to say that today's #AHAPerspectives article resulted from the #AHA25 Pitch Slam! In our latest #EverythingHasAHistory entry, Miriam F. Ascarelli looks at the Morris Canal, which once ran right through her university's campus. 🗃️

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In 2022, the AHA launched the most comprehensive study of the national US history teaching landscape undertaken in the 21st century. We wanted to know what is actually happening in public school classrooms across the country. Find out what we learned. 🗃️

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AHA executive director @jgrossman.bsky.social appeared on CNN on Friday, May 24, where he spoke about the recent cancelation of NEH grants and funding. The cuts, he emphasized, were made by DOGE, not NEH staff: “Nobody was involved who actually knew what they were talking about.” 🗃️

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In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek of the June issue of the American Historical Review, including articles on opium, terminology for slavery, and counterrevolution, a forum on the concept of "Big Asia," and contributions on searchability and using archival databases in the classroom. 🗃️

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Looking for a gift for a graduating student? Whether you are a mentor, professor, friend, or family member, giving the gift of an AHA membership is the perfect way to honor your graduate’s achievements. 🗃️

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Drew Faust (Former VP @historians.org) reminds us of our "reciprocal obligation" to the past. US Army soldiers in Civil War fought to preserve democracy. Their victory was institutionalized in 13-15th Amendments.Our obligation is to preserve the word & the spirit of those amendments lnkd.in/e28mEgAU

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AHA executive director @jgrossman.bsky.social will appear on CNN on Friday, May 23 at 7:45 p.m. ET as part of a segment on humanities funding, including the cancelation of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants and cuts to the NEH. 🗃️

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From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: After WWII, @kimclarke.bsky.social's widowed grandmother and "thousands of others insisted the government uphold a commitment it had made to military families for decades—to bring home its fallen soldiers." 🗃️

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Registration is open for the AHA's Department Chairs’ Workshop, which will be held online from June 23–⁠24. This interactive, two-day workshop provides a productive space for new and experienced chairs to hold thoughtful discussions about the issues and challenges facing history departments. 🗃️

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The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️

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The AHA has sent a letter to the Texas Senate Committee on Education K–16 objecting to provisions in the engrossed version of House Bill 4, which “would eliminate existing requirements for state assessments in both US history and social studies.” 🗃️

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Check out the handout from the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of deportation. Panelists @hidehirota.bsky.social, Ana Raquel Minian Andjel, & @yaelschacher.bsky.social shared policies concerning immigration & deportation throughout US history. 🗃️

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AHA director of teaching and learning @bgillis.bsky.social joined History Shorts, a podcast by historian Peter Zablocki, to discuss the AHA’s American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, the largest-ever survey of history education in American secondary schools. 🗃️

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Our latest in the Long Overdue project honors D'Arcy McNickle. Give it a read! 🗃️

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Get ready! The #AHAReads summer reading challenge starts in June. Who among us is not spoiled for choice in the category: "a history that has been sitting on your shelf too long"?! : https://www.historians.org/news-publications/aha-reads/?_zs=rIbma&_zl=B7bV4

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In #AHAPerspectives, read a Long Overdue tribute to William D’Arcy McNickle, "a prolific fiction writer, historian, and stalwart advocate of tribal sovereignty and self-determination," who died in 1977. 🗃️

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June is approaching fast, which means #AHAReads starts soon! Will you be joining the reading challenge? www.historians.org/news-publica...

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From #AHAOnline in February 2022: Karlos Hill, Jennifer Turner, Trinidad Gonzales, & Leland J. White with chair @kmhilliard.bsky.social help equip historians with tools to advocate effectively for history education. 🗃️

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A conversation with a community elder made Shriya Dasgupta "realize just how many stories like this are waiting to be told" about the revolutionaries in early 20th-century Kolkata. So she started an oral history archive, as she shares in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️

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Been saying this for years! www.historians.org/perspectives... @historians.org

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From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: As a new department chair presiding over end of year celebrations, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social “felt compelled to draw together the reasons we were in that room and in that community.” 🗃️

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The AHA has released a statement condemning censorship in US military academies, such as the removal of 381 books, including acclaimed historical works and widely used primary sources, from the US Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library. 🗃️

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On May 6, AHA senior program analyst Julia Brookins testified before the Texas House Committee on Higher Education in opposition to SB 37. “This bill places politics before the educational needs of students,” she said. 🗃️

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Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on artificial intelligence on C-SPAN. @nescioquid.bsky.social, Janet Abbate, @mattspast.bsky.social , and Jeffrey R. Yost placed today's conversations on AI into historical context. 🗃️

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Last summer, a team from @historians.org issued a report on the teaching of history in U.S. K-12 schools. We asked them to write an essay-length version of that report for History of Education Quarterly. And then we invited four leading scholars to comment. In this thread, I'll post links to all.

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From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: Shuko Tamao wrote, "As an Asian immigrant and historian, I know how toxic the model minority myth is. However, like so many of my AAPI students and colleagues, I am still trapped in this toxic myth." 🗃️

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AHA members @joguldi.bsky.social, Peter Roady, @laraputnam.bsky.social, @kalanicraig.bsky.social, Arlene Díaz, & Katherine McDonough were featured in an article in PNAS, one of the most-cited & comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, on how historians use data science to mine the past.

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AHA executive director @jgrossman.bsky.social will join Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton Univ.) in a conversation about her new book, The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West, on Saturday, May 17, at the Connecticut Avenue location of Politics & Prose in Washington, DC.

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Of note this year: the first awards from the new LGBTQ History Research Grant! Congrats especially to those four winners! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗃️

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The @acls1919.bsky.social, AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, & the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."

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Congratulations to the 41 winners of the AHA's 2025 research grants! Each year, the AHA awards several research grants to support the study, exploration, and advancement of history in numerous diverse subject areas. 🗃️

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The AHA is invested in welcoming K–12 teachers to the annual meeting. Megan Porter participated in a new program at #AHA25 to build community among teachers, and she was kind enough to write about it for #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️

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Deadline approaching: submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources. 🗃️

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What do US history classes have in common across the vast landscape of 50 states, 13,000 school districts, and 90,000 schools? Read the AHA’s American Lesson Plan to get a sense of national patterns and regional differences. 🗃️

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Megan Porter came home from #AHA25 energized by her participation in a new program for teachers. As she writes in #AHAPerspectives, "This weekend of telling stories about our shared work and passion had reconnected me with my professional self." 🗃️

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Congratulations to AHA members Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak (New York Univ.), David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.), and Margaret L. King (Brooklyn Coll. and the Graduate Center, CUNY) for their recent election to the American Philosophical Society. 🗃️

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AHA staff and Council members have written articles and made public appearances highlighting the challenges teachers and educators face from legislation restricting the teaching of “divisive concepts” and issues related to teaching history with integrity. 🗃️

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Congratulations to the following AHA members who were recently honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for 2025: Edda Fields-Black, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, Benjamin Nathans, and finalists @sethrockman.bsky.social, Rachel Nolan, and @davidgreenberg.bsky.social. 🗃️

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Kyra Dezjot was a graduate intern with the AHA last summer. And it was a pleasure to work with her on this piece about her high school teaching practice in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️

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It's a packed house at the ASAE 2025 MMC+Tech Conference for a session featuring @alexandralevy09.bsky.social of @historians.org on "Google Analytics Unlocked: Data-Driven Strategies for Your Association Website"!

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When teaching History of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies in New Jersey, Kyra Dezjot was concerned. If she followed the state standards, "all my students would learn about Jewish people was the Holocaust." In #AHAPerspectives, learn about how she used a person-centered lens to refocus the course.🗃️

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The AHA’s John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice recognizes a historian for leadership and sustained engagement at the intersection of historical work, public culture, and social justice. Submit nominations by May 15. 🗃️

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Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

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You only have a few more days to nominate your digital project! The deadline is May 15!

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