Tech Check

Howard R. Hollem’s 1942 photograph of a World War II turret lathe operator graces the cover of this special issue, on how historians use (or don’t use) technology in places ranging from the classroom to the archive. If the young machinist became a historian after the war, she would have accumulated plenty of experience working with advanced technology, which might have stood her well in the discipline.

Photo: Howard R. Hollem/Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

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Staff

Allison Miller, editor
Kritika Agarwal, associate editor, publications
Stephanie Kingsley, associate editor, web content and social media
Zoë Jackson, editorial assistant
Liz Townsend, coordinator, data administration and integrity

Featured Articles

Google's VR platform Cardboard, introduced in 2014. Othree/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0

October 1, 2017

Features

Virtual Reality and the Classroom: How Historians Can Respond

October 1, 2017

Features

Historians and the Technologies of Research
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October 1, 2017

Features

Data Management Plans for Historians: How to Document and Protect Your Research
The exhibition German Colonialism contextualized the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba. This poster was published by the government of East Germany. Courtesy Deutsches Historisches Museum

October 1, 2017

Perspectives on Culture

Reckoning with Colonial History

From the AHA

“You will leave here . . . prepared to find your own way.” Wade Brooks/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0

October 1, 2017

From the Executive Director

Imagining PhD Orientation in 2022
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October 1, 2017

From the President

The Personal Is Historical
The AHA Townhouse

October 1, 2017

From the Editor

Is Revising Your Dissertation the Only Path?
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October 1, 2017

From the Teaching Division

Declining Enrollments in History Courses
AHA 2020 - New York, NY - January 4, 2020

October 1, 2017

Beyond the Monuments: Race and American Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
AHA 2020 - New York, NY - January 4, 2020

October 1, 2017

AHA Annual Meeting

“Loyalties”
AHA 2020 - New York, NY - January 4, 2020

October 1, 2017

When Historians Weigh In: Sessions on Public Engagement at the 2018 Annual Meeting
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October 1, 2017

AHA Activities

Life After PhD
AHR Cover October 2017

October 1, 2017

AHA Activities

In the October 2017 Issue of the American Historical Review
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October 1, 2017

AHA Activities

Nominations Invited for AHA Offices, Terms Beginning January 2019

October 1, 2017

AHA Activities

AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments

Other Articles

October 1, 2017

From the National History Center

Thinking Locally
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October 1, 2017

In Memoriam

John C. Burnham (1929–2017)
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October 1, 2017

In Memoriam

David H. Culbert (1943–2017)
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October 1, 2017

In Memoriam

Charles Coulston Gillispie (1918–2015)
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October 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

On the May 2017 Cover
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October 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

On Alternative Facts
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October 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

On “The Quick Rise of the Slow Professor”
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October 31, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

October 30, 2017

What Should We Do with Confederate Monuments?
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October 26, 2017

Reviving the Sleeping Giant: Historians Tackle the College-Level Survey Course
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October 24, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Natalie Mendoza
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October 23, 2017

Mapping the Early Modern World

October 19, 2017

One Short Week in Denver
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October 17, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Frank (Francis) Daniel McCann

October 16, 2017

Fighting for the NEH’s Future on Capitol Hill

October 12, 2017

On (Dissertation Research) Roads Not Travelled
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October 11, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Cara Caddoo
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October 10, 2017

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

American Historical Association Announces 2017 Prize Winners
AHA 2020 - New York, NY - January 4, 2020

October 5, 2017

Perspectives Daily

What to Do, Where to Go When You’re in DC for AHA18
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October 3, 2017

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ross Dunn

October 2, 2017

Perspectives Daily

Odd Jobs: The Outliers of Where Historians Work

News

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October 1, 2017

News

Error and Trial
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October 1, 2017

News

Documenting Foreign Relations
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October 1, 2017

News

Advocacy Briefs, October 2017