{"id":5612,"date":"2024-04-03T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news-publications\/aha-reads\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:21:32","slug":"aha-reads","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news-publications\/aha-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97061 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AHA-Reads-2025-web-banner-01.png\" alt=\"Summer Reading Challenge: #AHAReads 2025\" width=\"700\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AHA-Reads-2025-web-banner-01.png 700w, https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AHA-Reads-2025-web-banner-01-600x225.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In these chaotic times, we\u2019re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the present than by diving into a good book about the past?<\/p>\n<p>So we invite you to participate in the fourth annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge. Participants will<strong> complete three (or more) of the following tasks<\/strong> in the months of June, July, and August. These tasks encourage you to read widely\u2014outside your field, your areas of expertise, and your personal experiences\u2014and define \u201chistory\u201d as nonfiction at any length (a book, an article, a chapter).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read a history of an event with a major anniversary in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Read a history of a resistance movement.<\/li>\n<li>Read a history that uses material culture.<\/li>\n<li>Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multiauthor work.<\/li>\n<li>Read a history that\u2019s been sitting on your shelf too long.<\/li>\n<li>Read a piece of historical fiction (novel, story, poem, play).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We encourage participants to post about what they\u2019re reading for this challenge on the <a href=\"http:\/\/historians.org\/memberforum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AHA Member Forum<\/a> or on social media using the hashtag #AHAReads. And for those that complete the challenge by Labor Day, there will be a small reward at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Want a paper checklist? Tear off the back cover of the May issue of <em>Perspectives on History<\/em> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AHA-Reads-2025-Checklist.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news-publications\/aha-reads\/past-aha-reads-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Past AHA Reads Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these chaotic times, we\u2019re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14440,"parent":1825,"menu_order":4,"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-5612","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\/5612","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=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97772,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5612\/revisions\/97772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}