Highlights from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago

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Index

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• News
• Videos
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News

Notes from the AHA Business Meeting
David A. Walsh and Rick Shenkman

AHA Features Panels on the Indifference of Journalists to History
Rick Shenkman

Videos

• Padriac Kenney Interview on Popular Protest Movements
• Andrew J. Bacevich: The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
• Juan Cole: Interpreting the Arab Spring
• Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
• Thomas Bender: Where Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects of the History Profession
• Anthony Grafton: Presidential Address: The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies

Sessions of Interest at the AHA

Past AHA Annual Meetings

Cliopatria Awards 2011

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News at Home

Fed Up with the Iowa Corn Con 
Gil Troy

Can a Mormon Candidate Rise Above the Religious Issue to Win It All Next Year?
Vaughn Davis Bornet

You Want to Understand Occupy Wall Street? Start Reading Havel
James Livingston

News Abroad

Historians & History

Restoring Indian History at Jamestown and Williamsburg: Interview with Historic Anthropologist Buck Woodard Priscilla Hart

Culture Watch

The Lost Decade: The 1950s Comes Back with a Roar
Bruce Chadwick

War Horse a Winner Whether on Stage or Screen
Bruce Chadwick

It’s the Holidays and Time for History’s Dark Fairy Tale Champs, Hansel and Gretel
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Greil Marcus's The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
Jim Cullen