Saturday Highlights at OAH 2018
At Saturday’s “Doing History” workshops, participants explored the use of animation, family history, and digital…
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Friday Highlights at OAH 2018
This year’s program committee designed a new series of workshops that would be available to…
Experimenting with the Digital Humanities to Remix Scholarship
The hallways are dimly lit and lined with windowless rooms. As you walk down and…
OAH 2018 Awards
The OAH sponsors and co-sponsors dozens of awards, grants, and fellowships annually. Here are the…
Thursday Highlights at OAH 2018
“Welcome to Sacramento! The Local Resource Committee invites you to enjoy the Central Valley’s mild…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of “Reinterpreting the American State: Digital History’s Intervention”
For skeptics, digital history has been long on flash and short on substance. “Yes, but…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of “State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation”
When it comes to abolition and emancipation, professional historians and the general public alike have…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of "Beyond Good and Evil: New Ways of Thinking about Henry Kissinger"
This panel was inspired by two recent books about Henry Kissinger: the first installment of…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of "Growing Up and Growing Older in the United States: Age as a Category of Analysis"
How we understand age shapes the form of history. Most often, historians use age as…
Using Poor Laws to Regulate Race in Providence in the 1820s
In 1825, members of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, made a public—and unusual—complaint.…