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AHA Members Ratify Resolution
Members of the American Historical Association have ratified the "Resolution on United States Government Practices Inimical to the Values of…
History Graduate Students Hold Conference at University of Maryland
On Friday, February 9, 2007, the History Graduate Students Association (HGSA) at the University of Maryland at College Park held…
Scholars Present Testimony to House Subcommittee on Presidential Records
On March 1, 2007, noted historian Robert Dallek presented testimony on behalf of the AHA to the House Oversight and…
Report Indicates History Salary Growth Lags Behind other Disciplines
The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) recently published the latest salary figures for faculty members, in…
Let the Sunshine In: Government Records and National Insecurities
What do George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have in common? They all head governments…
What is the Meaning of the Master’s Degree? An Introduction
In recent years, the American Historical Association has taken an intensive look at the way in which graduate students are…
Function of the Master’s Degree in Teaching History
In his introduction to the AHA pamphlet, Retrieving the Master's Degree from the Dustbin of History, David Trask noted that…
The MA and a Career in Historic Preservation
What is the value of a master’s degree in history for a career in historic preservation? Certainly, the fundamental components…
Public History Master’s at the University of South Carolina
The report of the AHA Committee on the Master’s Degree in History is thoughtful and thoroughly researched. In this essay,…
Dismantling an Imperial Presidency
In a month that saw the passing of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., it seems somehow appropriate that the House of…
National Archives Seeks Comments on Rule to Increase Copying Fees
On February 26, 2007, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) published a proposed rule announcing its intention to raise…
Teaching a City about Its Civil Rights History: A Public History Success Story
Two years ago, most Seattle citizens thought that the civil rights movement occurred only in the South. "Seattle was not…
Hanns Gross (1928-2006)
Hanns Gross, professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Chicago, died at the Luther Nursing Home in Arlington Heights, Illinois,…
Richard W. Leopold (1912-2006)
Richard W. Leopold, a prominent diplomatic historian whose teaching and scholarship guided students and colleagues during an illustrious career, died…
Sheldon Meyer (1926-2006)
A life well led is almost always stoked by passion. Sometimes these passions are private pursuits, directed inward: reading, writing,…
Google Books: What’s Not to Like?
The Google Books project promises to open up a vast amount of older literature, but a closer look at the…
Lessons from the Poop Deck
Those of us at the AHA who have often daydreamed about a historical high-seas adventure (minus the scurvy) were thrilled…
Bancroft Prize Winners Announced
Jack Temple Kirby and Robert D. Richardson have won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for 2007. One of the most coveted…
The Library of Congress Joins the Blogosphere
The Library of Congress announced Monday that in celebration of its 207th birthday on April 24th, it was launching the…
National Coalition for History Launches New Web Site
The National Coalition for History (NCH), a non-profit organization that advocates for the history community, now has a new web…
Library of Congress, PBS, and Ken Burns Team Up to Gather Oral Histories
In an April 17th press release, the Library of Congress Veterans History Project reported that it has teamed up with…
Gettysburg Foundation Flooded with Greenbacks
Huzzah! The Gettysburg Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to the preservation of America’s most-hallowed battlefield, is awash in cash. Two…
“Let the Sunshine In” with the April Issue of Perspectives
In this month’s issue of Perspectives, AHA President Barbara Weinstein explains what George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, and Luiz Inácio…
New York Times Archives 1851 to present
In mid-March the New York Times announced that it would make its popular TimesSelect service available free to college students.…
The American Tax Tradition
Although T.S. Eliot wasn’t thinking about the federal tax deadline when he described April as “the cruelest month,” his words…
Come One, Come All, To The History Carnival
The blogosphere is rich with blogs on history. To get a peek at all that’s out there, visit Cliopatria’shistory blogroll…
Time to Update Your Directory Listing
The AHA is now in the process of updating its Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians for the…
AHA Members among New Guggenheim Fellows
Sixteen AHA members are among the 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected this year (out of 2,800 possible candidates) to…
Check out the Latest News from the National Coalition for History
Lee White from the National Coalition for History posted the latest Washington Update last Friday, April 6. Highlights from this…
Japanese History Texts Draw Fire from China and Korea
Evidently, the winners aren’t the only ones who write the history books. A recent decision by Japan’s Education Ministry to…
The Raw Data on Graduate Programs
When looking for a graduate school, many sources should be considered and factors weighed. Faculty advisors, the history department (faculty…
Communist Party USA Donates Papers to NYU
New York University’s Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives formally announced that it will acquire the papers of…
Archiving Hurricane Memories
It’s amazing to think that hurricanes Katrina and Rita wreaked their havoc almost two long years ago. The memories, and…
New Features at JSTOR
JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive, recently announced new features it has added to make searching article PDFs and finding keywords…