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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
9/25/2020
OAH Statement on White House Conference on American History
"The history we teach must investigate the core conflict between a nation founded on radical notions of liberty, freedom, and equality, and a nation built on slavery, exploitation, and exclusion."
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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
4/6/2020
OAH Announces Annual Awards
The Organization of American Historians has announced the winners of its annual prizes for scholarship and service.
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SOURCE: OAH Email to Members
2/23/18
The next president of the OAH will be ... Yale's Joanne Meyerowitz
She is the president-elect of the Organization of American Historians.
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SOURCE: Process Blog (Organization of American Historians)
11-21-17
OAH historians say events of the past year show they were right to emphasize freedom as the theme of the 2019 annual convention
by Joe W. Trotter Jr. and Kate Haulman
The theme of the OAH in 2019 will be The Work of Freedom.
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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians News Release
6-16-17
Historians urged to fight budget cuts to key humanities programs
"Never before have federal history and archival programs been under attack to this extent." – The Organization of American Historians
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SOURCE: Process
5-10-17
Black historians at the OAH risked the charge of presentism to show the links between racial violence in 1917 and Black Lives Matter today
"In our scholarly mission to validate the widest possible span of black subjects as intellectuals we must be courageous enough to challenge Western ways of knowing when those very structures so often invalidate these black feelings as an element of black knowledge."
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SOURCE: OAH Email Alert
1-24-17
OAH & AHA call on their members to resist attempts to gut the National Endowment for the Humanities
"Together, we will communicate that public support for the humanities benefits students, teachers, and communities across the country."
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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians (Press Release)
10-19-16
Benjamin H. Irvin Named OAH Executive Editor
Irvin replaces Edward T. Linenthal, who recently retired in July 2016 after serving as OAH Executive Editor since 2005.
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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians (email)
9-26-16
Voting opens soon for the leaders of the OAH in 2017
Members will be voting to confirm the election of Edward Ayers as president of the organization.
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SOURCE: OAH
2-1-16 (accessed)
Historians decide to break a contract with a Providence hotel accused of bad labor practices
The Organization of American Historians will boycott the Providence Hilton when it holds its annual meeting in Rhode Island in April.
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SOURCE: OAH
12-21-15
OAH stands with adjuncts, backs collective bargaining in most situations
The organization says work conditions for part-time, adjunct, and contingent historians is seriously wanting.
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SOURCE: OAH
8-21-15
Funding for History and Civics Education to be debated in the House of Representatives
Organization of American Historians asks its members to contact their representatives.
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4-18-15
Historians' Petition: Washington "Redskins" Change Your Name!
by Rick Shenkman
The OAH is on track to demand that the Redskins change their name.
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SOURCE: OAH
3-9-15
OAH Amicus Brief Filed in Same-Sex Marriage Case
Written by OAH member George Chauncey, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, the brief focuses on the history of discrimination against gays.
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SOURCE: OAH Outlook
May 2014
OAH President Patricia Limerick takes on Nicholas Kristof
by Patricia Limerick
The president of the OAH wants historians to give her evidence refuting Kristof's claims.
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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
5-1-14
Alan Kraut's OAH Presidential Address Is Now Online -- How Immigrants Crafted a New Identity
The great lengths immigrants went to, to fit in.
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SOURCE: OAH 2014
4-15-14
Is Blogging Scholarship?
Scholars who blog discuss whether blogging is scholarly.
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4-15-14
The 7 Most Popular HNN Videos from the 2014 OAH
by HNN Editor
Limerick, Kerber, Zelizer and more!
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4-12-14
The OAH is in the black and membership's stabilized
by Rick Shenkman
The membership has stabilized at around 8,000 members.
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