From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: "My journey teaching the history of #September11 has helped me realize that I can responsibly be the primary source my students complicate, cite, and engage," wrote Julianne Johnson. "I was evidence of humanity in this history." @histodons https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2021/the-professor-as-a-primary-source-9/11-history-and-memory

Rather than banning ChatGPT in his history classes, @_jonathansjones created an assignment to teach students what it can and can’t do. He shares this experience in #AHAPerspectives. @histodons https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/students-critique-a-chatgpt-essay-a-classroom-experiment

“The thrill of history, like the baseball game, comes from following the fits and starts, the sudden shifts of fortune…the individual bums and heroes, and the repeated tension created by the action,” writes AHA president Edward Muir in #AHAPerspectives. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/the-art-of-the-diamond-baseball-and-the-renaissance

Some recent urban development, L. Renato Grigoli writes, “lacks the sense that it is truly a place where people live.” Read more about Washington, DC, in #AHAPerspectives. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/city-stratigraphy-tracing-the-threads-in-dcs-urban-fabric

Bingo! Find out what AHA members, Council, and staff read to complete the #AHAReads challenge in August in #AHAPerspectives. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/bingo-august-roundup-of-aha-reads-2023

The curry puff may be a crowd-pleaser, but it’s also a culinary chimera. Read Fei-Hsien Wang’s exploration of this delicious treat as part of the #AHAPerspectives summer series on food and foodways. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/fusion-assimilation-or-just-a-good-idea-chinese-curry-puffs

Read a recap of last week’s #AHAOnline webinar, which featured moderator Leslie Harris and panelists Edward Ayers, Marvin Dunn, and Daina Ramey Berry. #AHAPerspectives https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/african-american-history-and-state-standards-in-florida-and-beyond-the-ahas-history-behind-the-headlines-webinar

In #AHAPerspectives, AHA executive director James Grossman explains how the #Florida Board of Education's new K–12 standards for African American history ignore more than a half century of historical scholarship. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/african-american-history-in-florida-aha-response-to-new-standards-of-instruction

In #AHAPerspectives, summer columnist Bethany Bell analyzes Rhiannon Giddens’s “Build a House,” a song that “narrates 400 years of Black history over the course of four minutes.” https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/rhiannon-giddenss-build-a-house-homeplace-making-in-black-memory-and-imagination

Creating an internship program at his high school allowed Dariel Chaidez Rivota to get students involved in local history programs. He explains this public history project in his second summer column for #AHAPerspectives. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/the-next-step-getting-students-involved-in-local-history

How can destroyed artwork provide historical insight? Graduate columnist Natalie D. McDonald explains in #AHAPerspectives.
https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/remnants-of-a-radical-hope-the-living-new-deal-in-los-angeles-part-1

While perusing a 1920s cooking magazine, Fernanda Sada Jiménez began to wonder what exactly made a particular recipe for snails “Mexican-style.” She analyzes the development of a nationalist Mexican cuisine in #AHAPerspectives. @histodons https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/mexican-style-snails-an-unusual-case-of-culinary-syncretism

Read an #AHAPerspectives recap of last week's #AHAOnline webinar, “History Behind the Headlines: Is Global Democracy in Crisis?," which featured moderator Kenneth Pomeranz and panelists Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Rafael Ioris, and Paul Zeleza. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/is-global-democracy-in-crisis-the-ahas-history-behind-the-headlines-webinar

From #AHAPerspectives in 2022: "Historically, it has been rare to find Native stories on TV," wrote Liza Black. But the 2021 television shows #RutherfordFalls and #ReservationDogs are "written by Native people and have largely Native casts." https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-2022/native-tv-in-2021-putting-the-i-in-bipoc

From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: "It took 160 years for that symbol of treason in defense of the rawest form of human exploitation to reach the core of the federal government," wrote Kevin Boyle and James Grossman. "Where do we go from January 6?" https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/a-starting-point-teaching-the-january-6-insurrection

What makes a food real or fake? As Leonie Rau writes in the #AHAPerspectives summer series on food and foodways, the answer depends on who you ask—and when you ask them. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/even-better-than-the-real-thing-faking-foodstuffs-in-13th-century-syria

The second month of #AHAReads is complete! Find out what AHA members, Council, and staff have been reading to complete the challenge in #AHAPerspectives.https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/second-month-complete-july-roundup-of-aha-reads-2023

In her first of two #AHAPerspectives columns, Bethany Bell revisits Beyoncé’s video, “Formation,” to examine how the artist inverts expectations by placing Black people at the center of antebellum Southern scenery. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/beyonc%C3%A9s-formation-homeplace-making-in-black-memory-and-imagination

In a few short years, Dariel Chaidez Rivota went from a brand new teacher to his high school’s historian. Read his first summer column in #AHAPerspectives on how that journey began. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/getting-the-ball-rolling-introducing-local-history-to-a-high-school-community

In the latest article on food and foodways in #AHAPerspectives, Isaac Boqiao Yan examines a dish with no fixed recipe—Galinha à Africana, or Grilled African Chicken—that provides insights into Macao’s colonial history. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/macanese-galinha-andagrave-africana-time-traveling-to-portuguese-colonial-africa-from-macao