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The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. The AHA is a trusted voice advocating for history education, the professional work of historians, and the critical role of historical thinking in public life.

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Robert Greene on His Film "Bisbee '17"

In this episode, AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with filmmaker Robert Greene about his 2018 film “Bisbee ’17.” In it Greene examines the complex and troubled history of Bisbee, Arizona, a mining town located near the state’s southern border. The film’s central focus is the 1917 illegal removal of more than a thousand striking mine works, and many of their local supporters, by the mining company Phelps Dodge—a scarring event now known simply as the “Bisbee Deportation.” Greene went about the...

May 20, 2019•21 min

Kathryn Tomasek on Historians and Digital Scholarship

In the fall of 2018, Wheaton College historian Kathryn Tomasek made a visit to Indiana University, Bloomington, as a guest of IU’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. AHR Interview producer Daniel Story sat down with her in front of a live audience to discuss historians and digital scholarship. Kathryn Tomasek is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history, women’s history, and digital history, and is a founding direc...

May 02, 2019•26 min

Kathryn Olivarius on Her Article “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans”

In this episode, editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Kathryn Olivarius, whose article, “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans,” appears in the April 2019 issue of the AHR. Olivarius is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University where she focuses on the antebellum South, Greater Caribbean, slavery, and disease. Her book, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Mar 25, 2019•22 min

Brandon Byrd on African American Intellectual History

In this episode we speak with Brandon R. Byrd about his work in African American and African Diaspora intellectual history. His first book, forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press, is titled The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti. Byrd is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He also currently serves as vice president of the African American Intellectual History Society and is a contributor to that organization’s online publication Black Pers...

Mar 18, 2019•26 min

The Fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro

One of the late-breaking sessions at this year’s AHA Annual Meeting dealt with the devasting fire that engulfed Brazil’s Museu Nacional in September 2018. The session was titled “Archives Burning: The Fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and Beyond.” We spoke with three of the participants just after the panel concluded: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Seth Garfield, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares. Natalia Sobrevilla Perea is Professor of Latin American History at University of Kent. She is th...

Feb 04, 2019•28 min

Bianca Premo & Yanna Yannakakis: “A Court of Sticks and Branches"

In this episode we speak with Bianca Premo and Yanna Yannakakis about their article “A Court of Sticks and Branches: Indian Jurisdiction in Colonial Mexico and Beyond,” which appears in the February 2019 issue of the AHR as part of a forum titled “Indigenous Agency and Colonial Law.” The forum also features an article by Miranda Johnson from the University of Sydney titled “The Case of the Million-Dollar Duck: A Hunter, His Treaty, and the Bending of the Settler Contract” and an introductory ess...

Jan 28, 2019•33 min

Trevor Getz on Graphic History

Over the past few issues, the AHR has begun broadening what it selects for review beyond the confines of the scholarly monograph. In the April 2018 issue, the journal featured a set of film reviews, in June documentary history, in October museums and public history sites—and in the December issue the graphic history, or history in comic book form. In this episode, we speak with the guest editor for that set of graphic history reviews, San Francisco State historian Trevor Getz. Getz is a historia...

Dec 12, 2018•19 min

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