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AHA Today
Check out the AHA's newest blog posts, listed below. Or, visit the blog archive to read past posts. Most Recent Posts:
What We’re Reading: February 4, 2010 Edition
Online Oral History Projects
Heroic AHA Member Helps to Save Lives in Haiti
Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library
Howard Zinn Dies at 87
What We’re Reading: January 28, 2010 Edition
The Half Had Not Been Told to Me
Louis R. Harlan, dies January 22, 2010
National Coalition for History
February
Teaching American History Grants Face Uncertain Future
National Archives & NHPRC FY 11 Proposed Budgets
December 2009 AHR now online
The latest issue is now available online. For full access, members should login here, first.
Upcoming Events
Visit the AHA Calendar for upcoming events.
The Calendar features
research, awards & fellowships, internet resources, and exhibitions
Directory of History Journals
This Directory—newly updated in December 2009—provides links to peer-reviewed English-language journals that publish in all fields of history, as an aid to authors seeking a place to publish their research.
125th Annual Meeting
Boston, MA
January 6–9, 2011
Theme: History, Society, and the Sacred
Submit a proposal - February 15 deadline
124th Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
January 7-10, 2010
Annual Meeting Program
Registration Resource Center
Pubs Shop
The new Pubs Shop allows you to buy AHA publications online! Members, login to member services first to get your member discount.
Archives Wiki
The AHA's Archives Wiki
is a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world. And the wiki format allows all historians to contribute.
History Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada
This resource offers a profile of history doctoral programs in the U.S. and Canada, advice for applicants to PhD programs, and a searchable database on dissertations in progress and completed in those programs.
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