History

The AHA’s American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, the most comprehensive study of secondary US history education undertaken in the 21st century, has been featured in general, local, and education-focused news coverage, including the following:   Dana […]

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious symbolism, contemporary art may baffle on purpose, but put

The Concorde passenger jet set a record when it flew between New York City and London in 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds. The supersonic plane could fly at more than twice the speed of sound. But just how fast

AHA member Renata Keller (Univ. of Nevada, Reno), who recently visited Washington, DC, to participate in the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of US military alliances, was featured in a Nevada Today article by Jessica Lozada. “This experience encouraged

Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three

While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening up new possibilities for erotic content. Today we will offer a brief history of sex on TV, and then focus

Marc Piscotty/Getty Images Marc Piscotty/Getty Images The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines. The robber, Jack Miller, put forward a novel defense: that a law banning

Today, I would like to tell you a story. A story about a sinister conspiracy, a lost and noble prince, an evil tyrant, and a war over the soul of an empire. Or, more likely, a story about a crazed