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A Survey of Tenure Practices in History: Departments Indicate Books Are Key and Success Rates for Tenure High
A survey conducted in the fall of 2003 by the AHA's Research Division reveals that most history departments and programs…
Is History Falling Behind the Times? Survey and Conference of Midwest Schools Offer a Warning
A survey of faculty at midwestern research universities and a related conference of deans and provosts at those universities cast…
Amid Continuing Controversy Smithsonian Opens Annex of Air and Space Museum
On December 15, 2003, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the National Air and Space Museum's new annex near Washington Dulles…
NRC Rethinking Methods of Assessing PhD Programs
A special committee of the National Research Council (NRC) has recommended substantially revising the methods of collecting, processing, and presenting…
State Secrets, Advisory Committees, and the CIA
The recent congressional action authorizing the creation of a history office for the newly established Department of Homeland Security (see…
In Conversation with Historian Thomas D. Clark
Editor’s Note: Thomas D. Clark, who was honored at the 118th annual meeting of the AHA by the conferral of…
Teaching History at a Community College
Brenna Lissoway, member of the AHA's Committee for Graduate Students and who helped to arrange this forum for publication in…
Doing History in the Exhibit Halls: The History PhD and a Museum Career
Few newly minted history PhDs imagine a future for themselves outside of the ivy-adorned walls of academe. Yet their skills…