Last week was another busy week of federal challenges to museums and history organizations. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the eight other ...

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series of posts written by members of the AASLH Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Task Force. You can ...

Water has always been essential to life in Johnson County—shaping the land, sustaining communities, and influencing the local economy. The Johnson ...

Longtime readers of this blog know that I bleed Mets blue and orange. That’s why I resonate so much with Devin Gordon’s piece today at The New York Times: ...

The Trump administration is threatening deep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency that provides essential funding and ...

The history journal/magazine is returning after a brief hiatus. Here is the press release:Lapham’s Quarterly, the celebrated journal of history and ideas ...

Rose Miron is Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library. This interview is based on her new book, Indigenous Archival Activism: ...

[250 years ago this past Saturday, Patrick Henry delivered his “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech to the Virginia Assembly. So this week I’ll ...

A 1940s foreign policy breakthrough is in jeopardyHenry Luce knew he was facing a skeptical audience when he argued in Life magazine in early 1941 that the ...

March 23, 2025—Public historian Nancy Spannaus has just released her latest book, entitled From Subject to Citizen: What Americans Need to Know about ...

Coauthored by Michael Hillard and  Chad PearsonThe theme of the 2025 Business History Conference (BHC) was “The Business of Labor.” (Held in ...

John Fea   |  March 23, 2025 Leave a Comment A few things online that caught my attention this week:The president of Sojourners underestimated the ...