As a scholar of international history, Arne Westad studies the past to better understand today’s most pressing global challenges.
It’s an approach Westad imparts to his...
Camille Cole’s dissertation, “Empire on Edge: Land, Law, and Capital in Gilded Age Basra,” was selected as the 2020 winner of the Association for Gulf and Arabian...
The Southern Historical Association awarded the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize to Justin Mark Randolph, author of “Civil Rights Arrested: Black Freedom Movements and...
The AHA welcomes the 2020–21 recipients of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History, the Fellowship in Aerospace History, and the Fellowship in the History of...
At a moment that is Hamletesque in Minsk and Washington alike, Marci Shore illuminates moments of choice, and what these mean for freedom and human dignity. The following is...
Who, besides the indigenous peoples from Asia who crossed the Alaskan land bridge in prehistory, arrived in the Americas before Columbus? The question has fascinated...
Robert Harms, the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies, received the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book, Land of Tears: The Exploration...
