The Forms of History: The Organization of American Historians 2018 Meeting...
nationThe main activity of the Annual Meeting for historians has changed little since it was invented at the end of the nineteenth century. Now, as then, historians gather to read prepared papers to...
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The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 annual meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You can find out more about the meeting here and register here. As you plan your visit, consider...
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The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You can find out more about the meeting here and register here. As you plan your visit, consider...
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In 1825, members of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, made a public—and unusual—complaint. They took to the newspapers to complain about how much work they had to do. Their goal was to...
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How we understand age shapes the form of history. Most often, historians use age as a simple tool for framing other topics. For instance, biographers use age to note the passage of time in their...
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This panel was inspired by two recent books about Henry Kissinger: the first installment of Niall Ferguson’s officially authorized biography, Kissinger: The Idealist, and Greg Grandin’s Kissinger’s...
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When it comes to abolition and emancipation, professional historians and the general public alike have a great deal to say, much of it conflicting and contradictory. Rather than settling on any single...
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For skeptics, digital history has been long on flash and short on substance. “Yes, but what does it tell us that’s new?” is the common refrain (often accompanied by a dismissive hand-wave). Putting...
View ArticleThursday Highlights at OAH 2018
“Welcome to Sacramento! The Local Resource Committee invites you to enjoy the Central Valley’s mild spring days and nights and venture out into the neighborhoods surrounding the Convention Center,” say...
View ArticleOAH 2018 Awards
The OAH sponsors and co-sponsors dozens of awards, grants, and fellowships annually. Here are the 2018 winners, announced at the Annual Meeting awards ceremony. Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service...
View ArticleExperimenting with the Digital Humanities to Remix Scholarship
The hallways are dimly lit and lined with windowless rooms. As you walk down and gaze into one beige rectangle after another, the same performance is taking place. A person stands behind a podium with...
View ArticleFriday Highlights at OAH 2018
This year’s program committee designed a new series of workshops that would be available to all attendees at no additional fee. These eight “Doing History” workshops were envisioned as a way to help...
View ArticleSaturday Highlights at OAH 2018
At Saturday’s “Doing History” workshops, participants explored the use of animation, family history, and digital storytelling. They also considered important lessons during “Teaching Historical...
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The 2018 OAH Annual Meeting (#OAH18) on the theme “The Forms of History” reminded historians of the different shapes the discipline can take and how this variety influences the public sphere. Every...
View ArticleAmerican Indian History State of the Field Session
A large and enthusiastic crowd showed up for the “State of the Field: American Indian History” roundtable on Friday afternoon April 13 at the Organization of American Historian’s 2018 Annual Meeting in...
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