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The blog on the The American Historical Association Conference Summary for 2025 ended with a reference to the vote in the business meeting to condemn Israel for its actions in Gaza (The Hamas Wing versus the Hamilton Wing at the American Historical Association Conference). The last line was “Who knows what will happen as this […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2025 New York City Council Urges Federal Action to Preserve SS United States NEW YORK — The New York City Council on Thursday, December 18 approved a resolution urging federal action to preserve the SS United States, the all-American–built historic ocean liner, a true work of art, and the fastest […]
The State of American History The American Historical Association Conference Summary January 6, 2026 by Peter Feinman This blog is a summary blog and the sessions at the annual conference of the American Historical Association in 2025. There were too many presentations I consider to be of interest to the history to include in one […]
State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Native American History AHA Session 57 Saturday, January 4, 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Chair: Karen Marrero, Wayne State University Comment: Dalton Savage, National Council for History Education and Ned Blackhawk, Yale University Session Abstract “If our schools and university classrooms are to remain vital civic institutions,” Ned Blackhawk […]
State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Africa in World History AHA Session 29 Friday, January 3, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Chair: Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University Comment: Jennifer Hart, Virginia Tech, John Terry, Paideia School and Kyra Dezjot, Fordham University Session Abstract Historians of Africa have made foundational contributions to the effort to establish […]
Part of the conference was on the history infrastructure. One session was dedicated to the founder of museums. A second was on including the community. The third one was on the challenges facing museums at a divided moment in American history. The participants had no idea about the carnage that was about to happen. Mobilizing […]
The two sessions at the conference specifically devoted to the “Black” experience in the United States encompass a disparate range of topics. The first involves the centennial of the publication of the New Negro in 1925. The subject of the New Negro has been touched upon in earlier blogs along with the New Negro Woman […]
Religious Modernists, Scientists, and the Culture Wars of the Scopes Era 2025 was the centennial of the Scopes trial. When it occurred it was the center of media attention in the United States. It later became a play and movie that were based on the trial but took liberties with the facts. The enemy in […]
“Amelia Edwards: The Founding of the Egyptian Exploration Fund and the Exodus Peter Feinman Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education feinmanp@ihare.org SBL November 23, 2025 Amelia Edwards was the driving force behind the creation in 1882 of the Egyptian Exploration Fund (EEF, now Egyptian Exploration Society). The story of this individual is a remarkable one […]
This session includes examples of teachers using local history at the college level. Some students have never been before in the area they now walked. There often was a public presentation of the students’ findings which attracted media attention. Using Local History to Engage Students AHA Session 221 Sunday, January 5, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
