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History Jobs Take a Tumble, but the Number of PhDs also Falls
The past year proved quite grim in the job market for historians, as the number of new jobs listed in…
Senator Byrd to Receive the AHA’s Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Civil Service
At a special opening session of the AHA’s 118th annual meeting to be held in the Marriott Wardman Park’s Marriott…
Penguin Press Launches New American History Series
Penguin Press, a unit of the Penguin Group (itself a division of the media conglomerate, Pearson plc), announced in mid-October…
Historians Protest New Enola Gay Exhibit
A group of historians and activists has delivered a petition challenging the National Air and Space Museum's proposed exhibit of…
Oral History Excluded from IRB Review
The U.S. Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), working with…
Constructing a Historical Documentary: A Director’s Tale
History is a representation of the past that reflects the interests and biases of the practitioners of the discipline. As…
Institutional Review Boards
To the Editor: Editor's Note: Linda Shopes (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) and Donald Ritchie (U.S. Senate Historical Office)—who represented…
Severe Injury
To the Editor: Normally, obituaries do not inspire the kind of exchanges between readers and authors that book reviews sometimes…
Research and Risk
To the Editor: Having spent the last two and a half years representing the historical profession on the Northern Illinois…
Brown and Lawrence
To the Editor: Paul Moreno contends that the use of history in the Brown v. Board of Education bears no…
James Shenton’s Injury
To the Editor: I read with interest Eric Foner’s moving essay on James Shenton in the October 2003 Perspectives. However,…
Lawrence v. Texas
To the Editor: I take exception to Bruce Craig’s article in the October Perspectives, which argues that the historians’ brief…