The AHA has hosted Congressional Briefings since 2005, on issues ranging from healthcare policy, to gun rights and regulations, to farm policy, and other topics of importance to Congress. The AHA’s briefings have been attended by staffers from the House of Representatives and the Senate, the White House, and federal agencies and research institutions, and have informed policy decisions at the highest levels.<\/p>\n
The AHA is grateful to the Mellon Foundation for its generous support of the Congressional Briefings series.<\/em><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Myths and Realities of the US Refugee Policy”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2018).<\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Ground Strategy: How Federal Farm Policy Shaped America”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2018).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “How the Feds Reshaped Higher Education”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2018).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Will Robots Rule the World?”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2017).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “What Should We Do with Confederate Monuments?”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2017).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Is Civilian Control of the Military Eroding?”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2017).<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “US-China Diplomacy: Historical Perspectives on Challenges Confronting the People’s Republic”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2017).<\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “The Paradoxes of Presidential Power: A Brief History of Executive Orders”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2017).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “The Opioid Crisis in Historical Perspective”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Congressional Partisanship in Historical Perspective”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “How We Became the ‘Jailhouse Nation’: Historians Discuss Mass Incarceration in the US”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Our Federal Tax System: How We Got Here from There”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “National History Center Holds Congressional Briefing on the Ukraine Crisis”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “The National History Center’s Congressional Briefing on the Ebola Epidemic”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2014).<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “The NHC’s Latest Congressional Briefing: On Immigrant Entrepreneurship”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2014).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Dane Kennedy, “Overseeing Intelligence: Historians Brief Congress on Its Past Relationship with the Intelligence Community”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2014).<\/p>\n Watch on C-SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n Marian J. Barber, “Spring Congressional Briefing on the History of Immigration Policy”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2013).<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Marian J. Barber, “Historical Perspectives on Space Policy: A Congressional Briefing from the Center”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2012).<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Miriam E. Hauss, “History of Federal Education Policy Discussed at Congressional Seminar”<\/a> (Perspectives on History<\/em>, 2006).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\t\t The AHA’s History and Policy Education Program (HPEP) brings the principles of the Congressional Briefings program into the classroom to help students appreciate the importance of bringing historical perspectives to contemporary policy conversations. This initiative provides a guide for history educators to develop and host briefings about the historical dimensions of current policy questions, using materials from past briefings.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Informing Policy Decisions The AHA has hosted Congressional Briefings since 2005, on issues ranging from healthcare policy, to gun rights…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46007,"parent":2182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5521","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has-featured-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110370,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5521\/revisions\/110370"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\t\t2023-2026 Briefings\t<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t2005-2020 Briefings\t<\/h3>\n\t
Federal Responses to Economic Crisis, 2020<\/h5>\n
Vaccine Development, 2020<\/h5>\n
Congressional Oversight of Presidential Misconduct, 2019<\/h5>\n
US and Middle East Oil, 2019<\/h5>\n
History of US-Iran Relations, 2019<\/h5>\n
History of US Healthcare Policy, 2019<\/h5>\n
History of Gun Rights and Regulations, 2019<\/h5>\n
How Congress Reforms Itself, 2019<\/h5>\n
History of US Refugee Policy, 2018<\/h5>\n
Federal Farm Policy, 2018<\/h5>\n
History of US Trade Policy, 2018<\/h5>\n
History of US Infrastructure<\/h5>\n
History of Higher Education Policy, 2018<\/h5>\n
Automation and the Workforce, 2017<\/h5>\n
What to Do with Confederate Monuments, 2017<\/h5>\n
History of Civilian Control of the Military, 2017<\/h5>\n
History of US-China Relations, 2017<\/h5>\n
History of Executive Orders, 2017<\/h5>\n
Zika: Historic Parallels and Policy Responses<\/h5>\n
The Opioid Crisis in Historical Perspective, 2016<\/h5>\n
Partisanship on the Hill, 2016<\/h5>\n
Legacy of the Voting Rights Act, 2015<\/h5>\n
History of Incarceration, 2015<\/h5>\n
History of the Federal Tax System, 2015<\/h5>\n
Historical Perspectives on Ukraine, 2015<\/h5>\n
Historical Perspectives on the Ebola Epidemic, 2014<\/h5>\n
History of Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 2014<\/h5>\n
Congressional Oversight of the Intelligence Community, 2014<\/h5>\n
History of Immigration Policy, 2013<\/h5>\n
Historical Perspectives on Space Policy, 2012<\/h5>\n
History of Federal Education Policy, 2005<\/h5>\n
History and Policy Education Program<\/h3>\n\t\t