The AHA has launched a new website. Led by Alexandra Levy and Liz Townsend, our staff incorporated suggestions from members who helped us to improve the user experience and make the AHA’s cornucopia of resources easier to locate and explore.
Developing the site has provided us an opportunity to consider how our members and the public engage with the AHA and the history discipline more broadly. We hope the site illustrates why history matters and the many career paths open to history majors and historians. Past AHA annual meetings and events provided a wealth of photographs that enabled us to represent the diverse community of historians.
We’ve designed the site with all audiences in mind, and hope you will spend some time exploring it. Alex Levy has recorded a five-minute video providing a quick overview.
We’d like to call your attention to:
- The AHA’s journal American Historical Review and newsmagazine Perspectives on History. You can easily find information on how to submit to the journal and the magazine.
- The AHA Resource Library, currently with over 1,200 resources and growing. The library includes resources for classrooms at K–12, undergraduate, and graduate levels; professional development guides; the AHA’s standards and guidelines for the discipline; digitized historical document collections, such as the GI Pamphlet series from World War II and Civil War–era newspapers; and more.
- The Teaching & Learning landing page focuses on the AHA’s support of K–12, undergraduate, and graduate education.
- The AHA Advocacy page features AHA statements and letters and our action alerts at state and federal legislative levels. We encourage historians and our colleagues in adjacent disciplines to draw on our documents to contact their representatives.
- Our Teaching History with Integrity and Freedom to Learn pages provide further information about our advocacy work in history education at all levels.
- Community & Careers highlights our affiliates, dozens of awards and grants, and professional and career resources.
- Academic Department Resources features the AHA’s work with and events for department chairs.
- The Events section provides key information for the AHA annual meeting as well as upcoming AHA regional conferences and workshops, Congressional Briefings, and webinars.
- The AHA Events Calendar and Calls for Opportunities Calendar share upcoming events of interest to historians.
We welcome feedback on the site. We have created a Google Form to collect thoughts, suggestions, or questions about our redesign process. You can also email Alexandra Levy directly at alevy@historians.org.
We will continue to update articles and links, add additional content, and make further improvements. If you have any documents with links to the old AHA website, we recommend updating the URLs to ensure they take users to the correct page on the new site.Explore the New AHA Website
Thank you for taking time to explore the new site and offer your feedback. We can’t do the work we do without the support of our members. If you find this work valuable, we hope you will consider donating to the AHA, becoming a member, or renewing your membership today.
