Immigration on the Southern Border
The American Historical Association hosted a briefing with history professors Geraldo Cadava (Northwestern University), Nara Milanich (Barnard College) and Mae Ngai (Columbia Univ.) on immig…
234 viewsThe American Historical Association hosted a briefing with history professors Geraldo Cadava (Northwestern University), Nara Milanich (Barnard College) and Mae Ngai (Columbia Univ.) on immig…
234 viewsHow are presidential records collected, archived, and preserved? Scholars talked about the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and the National Archives' role in keeping presidential records s…
213 viewsMartin Di Caro, host of the Washington Times podcast, “History as it Happens,” interviewed American Historical Association president James Grossman about the historical context for current p…
516 viewsHistorians David Blight and Annette Gordon-Reed talked about recent debates over historical monuments, discussing how people could make decisions about removing or contextualizing them based…
1,640 viewsJames Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, explained how the history field has changed in the past decade, and why he feels the study of history is important,…
1,036 viewsPanelists talked about the historical context in which Civil War monuments were constructed and what they came to symbolize.
1,842 viewsJames Grossman talked about the national debate over removing Confederate monuments.
3,522 viewsPanelists talked about the role of religion in the lives of African Americans. “What is African American Religion?” was a session of “The Future of the African American Past,” a conferenc…
1,565 viewsPanelists talked about the role of African-American history in American history. “African American History as American History” was a session of “The Future of the African American Past,”…
906 viewsPanelists talked about the history covert activities in the United States and the impact of the Church Committee hearings on Congressional oversight of the intelligence community. As a resul…
1,236 viewsThree academics discussed the evolution of U. S. immigration policy. Each professor focused on a specific era, analyzing various laws and how each changed or shaped the American immigration …
2,301 viewsA roundtable discussion was held on how history relates to public culture and policy discussions. Topics included defining standards of historical practice and historians' duty to tell the p…
670 viewsFormer Representative Lee Hamilton (D-IN) was honored with the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Council of the American Historical Association. This was the …
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