History in Focus

By: American Historical Review
  • Summary

  • Go behind the scenes with the world’s leading history journal as we explore the who, what, how, and why of doing history in the twenty-first century.
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Episodes
  • S3 E5 Jo Guldi on Text Mining, AI, and Digital History
    Jan 15 2025

    Historian and quantitative methods expert Jo Guldi discusses text mining, AI, and the wider landscape of digital history in this longform conversation. Guldi’s work on these subjects can be found in two recent AHR articles—“The Algorithm: Mapping Long-Term Trends and Short-Term Change at Multiple Scales of Time” published in the June 2022 issue and “The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here” from the June 2024 issue—and in the book The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • S3 BONUS ‘Historians On’: AI in Teaching and Research
    Dec 18 2024

    At the 2024 AHA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, historian David Trowbridge sat down with a handful of attendees to discuss topics of particular interest to historians in the present moment. In this episode of our new "Historians On" series, David speaks with Katharina Matro, Jeff McClurken, Kalani Craig, Jo Guldi, Johann Neem, Kevin Gannon, and Lauren Tilton on the topic of AI and its implications for history teaching and research.

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    51 mins
  • S3 E4 Histories of Resilience
    Dec 4 2024

    In December 2024 American Historical Review published its first ever special issue. Titled “Histories of Resilience,” it features almost two dozen scholars from a wide range of fields contributing their research on resilience. In this episode we hear from board of editors members Josh Reid and Cymone Fourshey as they discuss how the issue came together interspersed with cameos from a few of the contributors—Kate Whiteley on the Wiyot Tribe of Northern California, Thaís R. S. de Sant’Ana on migrant workers in Brazil, Tammy Wilks on Kenyan Nubians, and Bob Reinhardt on US communities submerged as part of big dam projects.

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    43 mins

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