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NARA Investigators Detail Brazen Theft
On July 10, 2011, the stars were aligned. On that day, according to Jim Warwick, assistant US attorney for the…
Museums and the Future of Education
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) held its annual advocacy event on February 25 and 26 in Washington, DC. With…
New Plan for Access and Preservation of Audio Recordings
Patrick Loughney is the executive director of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, and he is worried. “During…
New Open Access Platform for the Humanities Launches
A recently launched initiative, the Open Library of the Humanities (OLH), has been received with interest in the humanities community,…
Advising Mom and Dad: History Majors and Family Worries
On the eve of the millennium, I got my first request to talk to a student’s dad about majoring in…
Tuning the Core: History, Assessment, and the St. John’s University Core Curriculum
Like many universities, St. John’s University (STJ) has a core curriculum, which attempts to teach a set of core competencies,…
An Unexpected Bridge: The AHA Tuning Project and Writing Across the Curriculum
At the University of Central Florida (UCF), an initiative sponsored by the AHA recently intersected with a broader endeavor designed…
Does History Matter? A Cautionary Tale for the Tuning Project
There is good reason to be concerned about the future of academic history and, more generally, the liberal arts. As…
Getting Right with Mr. Epstein
I’ve been getting lots of questions lately about how I wound up doing what I do. There are a range…
Feeling Compressed
Signs of salary compression persist in the ranks for history faculty, as the gap between average salaries for historians in…
Data Show a Decline in History Majors
Could Have Adverse Implications for Job Market During the 2010–11 academic year, the number of undergraduate students earning degrees in…
Navigating Twitter’s Wild, Wild West
Perspectives readers have already read my pitch for a set of live-tweeting guidelines, and I recently put forth the proposal…
The Interdisciplinary Humanities: A Platform for Experiential Learning of Workplace Skills
In their article “No More Plan B” (Perspectives on History, October 2011), Anthony Grafton and James Grossman called upon history…
Humanities Facing Cuts across the Board, Again
I am sure many of you remember the epic battle in 1975 between then-heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and former champion…
Bringing Scholarship to Life
The National History Center’s (NHC) International Seminar on Decolonization supports advanced research into an emerging area of scholarship, but it…
Member News, April 2013
AHA members are encouraged to submit news about their careers, including prizes, promotions, honors, tenure, and new jobs. If you…
On “The Value of the Humanities”
Editor’s Note: Perspectives on History welcomes letters to the editor on issues discussed in its pages or which are relevant…
Alexander Saxton (1919–2012)
Labor Activist, Novelist, and Historian Alexander Saxton joined the Department of History at UCLA in 1968 and taught to legions…
David Perry Shriver (1939–2012)
Innovative Teacher, Historian of Early America David Perry Shriver was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, 1939, and died in…
Gerda Lerner (1920–2013)
Pioneering Women’s Historian Gerda Lerner was a historian of remarkable eloquence, insight, and courage; a resolute advocate of the capacity…
Kumkum Chatterjee (1958–2012)
Historian of Early Modern South Asia Kumkum Chatterjee passed away in State College, Pennsylvania, on Thursday morning, December 13, 2012,…
Public Conversations
But how is one to know what will interest one’s readers? That is a difficult question. Clearly it is no…
Performing History: A PechaKucha Night in Buffalo
In the middle of an inauspiciously cold, wet week in Buffalo, New York, the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) planned…
Why History? A Note on the AHA Tuning Project
If you are at a university, the April issue of Perspectives on History probably arrived together with finals or midterms.…
AHA Supports Visas for Cuban Scholars to Attend LASA Conference
The following letter was submitted to the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, in support to facilitate visas for…
Hiring: AHA Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives
The American Historical Association is seeking a Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives. The Director of Scholarly Communication and…
Preservation Week at Perspectives: Audio Preservation and Access
To celebrate Preservation Week (April 21-27, #presweek), we are making available, to members and nonmembers alike, Jennifer Reut’s article on…
AHA Council Spotlight: Andrew Rotter
To go along with our ongoing AHA Member Spotlight, we have introduced an AHA Council Spotlight series featuring short interviews…
TED Talks You Should Be Watching
We know TED as the slightly hipper-than-thou conference of short public talks about ideas and innovation with a high WOW…
Now Available at Perspectives Online—the AHA and Career Paths for Historians
In the April issue of Perspectives on History, we featured an opinion piece by Nicholas Sarantakes, who teaches history at…
AHA Member Spotlight: Allison Scardino Belzer
Allison Scardino Belzer is assistant professor of history and the coordinator of undergraduate research at Armstrong Atlantic State University. She…
Fredrik Logevall Receives 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History
AHA Member Fredrik Logevall, John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in…
Available Now at Perspectives Online: A Decline in History Majors
We are making available, to members and nonmembers alike, Robert B. Townsend’s article for the April issue of Perspectives on…
Historians Discuss Immigration Reform on Capitol Hill
Yesterday, a short distance from the AHA offices, supporters of immigration reform marched on the National Mall, as a bipartisan…
AHA Member Spotlight: Kees Boterbloem
Kees Boterbloem is a professor of history at the University of South Florida. He lives in Tampa, Florida, and has…
Martin Scorsese Gives the 42nd Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Walking into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts always lends an event a kind of grandeur that…
How the “bosses’-eye view” of History is Capturing National Headlines
Sunday’s New York Times has a story on the growing numbers of courses and research projects on the history of…
Hiring: AHA Program Assistant
The American Historical Association is seeking a Program Assistant. The Program Assistant provides support for the program and executive staff…
The Most-Visited Sites in the National Park System for 2012
The National Park Service released its annual numbers on the most-visited sites in the park system for 2012. For a…
AHA Council Spotlight: Anne Hyde
Anne Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College and the Director of the Crown Faculty Development Center. She…
AAUP Releases Statement Calling on Higher Education Institutions to Comply with the Affordable Care Act
Declaring that “access to health care is a basic human right,” the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has issued…
Calling All Historians-Open Casting Call for History Based Reality TV Show
Do you have what it takes to be a reality TV star? I recently received an open casting call for…
In April’s Perspectives on History: Tuning the History Major, the Job Market, Historians’ Salaries, Humanities and Workplace Skills, and More
One year ago, Executive Director James Grossman introduced the AHA Tuning project in the pages of Perspectives. This month, we…