Seeing Images in History
The cover photograph, “A cross roads store, bar, ‘juke joint,’ and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La.,” is from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection, of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
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From the AHA
Oral History and Review Boards: Little Gain and More Pain
If you or your students use oral history interviews in research, you need to be attentive to continuing problems with…
An IRB at Work: A Personal Experience
As we have learned from recent articles in Perspectives, the interview guidelines of the Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP)…
White Paper Suggests “Mission Creep” Reduces IRB Effectiveness
One cause of the current crisis with IRBs is what is called "mission creep" in a new white paper originating…
NEH Announces Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops
As part of its "We the People" initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities is organizing Landmarks of American History…
Essays from Interactions Conference Published
Human social development takes place on many different levels—individual, local, regional, national, continental, hemispheric, oceanic, global, just to start. Studying…
The American Historical Association Announces the Herbert Feis Award for 2006
Established in 1984, this prize is offered annually to recognize distinguished contributions to public history during the previous 10 years.…
Seeing Images in History
Most history textbooks and many academic histories use images to illustrate the history that they tell. However, when we assign…
The Equitable Workplace: Not for Women Only
Editor's Note: The following article is a revised version of "A New Agenda for the Academic Workplace," Chronicle of Higher…
What We Owe Our Young: Honest Information about Placement
On March 23, 2004, a young historian announced that she would take down her blog, Invisible Adjunct. “Gentle Readers,” she…
History Coalition Gets NARA Grant to Help with Missing, Stolen, or Alienated Documents
The National Coalition for History (NCH) has signed a memorandum of understanding and received a $20,000 grant from the National…
Where Will They Find History? The Challenges of Information Literacy Instruction
In his 1999 article "No Computer Can Hold the Past," historian and then president of the American Historical Association Robert…
History of Federal Education Policy Discussed at Congressional Seminar
The National History Center’s Congressional Breakfast Seminar series was rounded off for 2005 at a well-attended meeting held on December…
How Long to the PhD?
One of the recurring questions we hear from doctoral programs and doctoral students is, "Just how long does it really…
Affiliated Societies, February 2006
CCHA Confers Award on Maureen Murphy Nutting The Community College Humanities Association conferred its highest honor, the Distinguished Humanities Educator…
Robert H. Bremner (1917-2002)
Robert H. Bremner, professor emeritus, Ohio State University, died on September 7, 2002. He is survived by his wife, Catherine,…
Catherine Ann Cline (1927-2005)
Catherine Ann Cline, a distinguished historian of contemporary Britain and the former chair of the history department of the Catholic…
Gordon Alexander Craig (1913-2005)
Gordon Alexander Craig was born in Glasgow on November 26, 1913. His family emigrated to Canada and in 1925 moved…