Academic Freedom in the Age of Homeland Security
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What’s In a Label? Changing Patterns of Faculty Specialization since 1975
Editor’s Note: Please note that this is an extended version of the article that first appeared in the January 2007…
History PhD Numbers Lowest in Almost a Decade as Job Listings Continue to Rise
According to a new federal survey, the number of history PhDs conferred in 2005 fell to the lowest level in…
Historians Franklin and Yu Receive the Kluge Prize
John Hope Franklin, 91, former AHA president (1979) and emeritus professor of history at Duke University, and Yu Ying-shih, 76,…
New Executive Director of the National Coalition for History Selected
The policy board of the National Coalition for History has reached an “enthusiastic and unanimous agreement” in the selection of…
Historians among Recipients of National Humanities Medals
AHA members Mark A. Noll of the University of Notre Dame and Bernard Lewis of Princeton University were among those…
The AHA and Academic Freedom in the Age of Homeland Security
The inaugural column of an AHA president is typically an opportunity for that historian to introduce herself to her colleagues…
Some Parting Thoughts on Capitol Hill
As readers of Perspectives may be aware, at the end of December 2006, I will have relinquished the executive directorship…
News Briefs, January 2007
A New Congress and New Possibilities for History and Archives For the first time in a dozen years, Democrats regained…
Thoughts on Creative Teaching in the Undergraduate Classroom
The tenth generation Texan from the State Historical Association bellowed out the reasons for retaining the teaching standards for schools…
What Does It Mean to Think Historically?
Introduction When we started working on Teachers for a New Era, a Carnegie-sponsored initiative designed to strengthen teacher training, we…
Categorical Imperatives?
To the Editor: I am dismayed to learn that the AHA Council approved the deletion of psychohistory as a specialty…
What’s in a Subspecialty’s Name?
To the Editor: I was surprised to learn that psychohistory had been deleted from the list of subspecialties. If I…
Linda Kerber’s Response to “Categorical Imperatives?” and “What’s in a Subspecialty’s Name?”
Categorical Imperatives? What’s in a Subspecialty’s Name? Linda K. Kerber, AHA president for 2006, responds to say that psychohistory will…
Endorsing Byrd
To the Editor: As a member of AHA I wish to take exception to the poorly disguised endorsement of U.S.…
Some Missed Notes
To the Editor: Two recent articles in Perspectives (December 2005 and November 2006) on using music in the classroom neglected…
When Did World War II Begin?
To the Editor: In a letter to the editor in the November 2006 Perspectives, Jonathan Reed Winkler took issue with…
The Disabled: Are Preferential Policies the Answer?
To the Editor: The article " Disability and the Transformation of Historians' Public Sphere” in the November 2006 issue of…
Marshall Fishwick (1923-2006)
Marshall W. Fishwick died in his home in Blacksburg, Virginia, May 22, 2006, at age 82. Fishwick had enjoyed a…
Kermit L. Hall (1944-2006)
On August 13, 2006, Kermit L. Hall died of a heart attack while swimming at Hilton Head, South Carolina. As…
Annual Meeting 2008: Poster Sessions and New Formats
The February 15th deadline for submitting a proposal for the 2008 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. is fast approaching, and…
Board Meets to Discuss Declassification
The National Coalition for History reports (in its January 27th newsletter) that the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) met last…
Milestones in Cyberspace
The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress recently reached a milestone of sorts, with the posting of…
Wikipedia Banned by Middlebury College for History Students
Students at Middlebury College will no longer be able to cite Wikipedia when writing history papers, according to an Inside…
Where are All the Jobs?
In any given year, the Job Register at the AHA annual meeting provides us with a small snapshot of the…
Seeing Results: Online Projects Funded by TAH Grants
As mentioned recently on this blog, the U.S. Department of State is again accepting Teaching American History Grant applications, and…
Opportunity in Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation invites historians to apply for a program intended to bring new perspectives on historical…
For that Home Away from the Archives
Traveling for research is a part of any historian’s job description, and arranging housing for an extended research stay can…
Publish or Perish
But don’t commit hara-kiri just yet, because your friends at the AHA are trying to make it easier for you…
NCH Reports on Washington
The National Coalition for History’s latest edition of its Washington Update is now online. Some highlights include news from the…
Workshop for Teaching American History Grant Applicants
Those interested in applying for a Department of Education Teaching American History Grant can attend a “technical assistance workshop” designed…
When Less is More: “The History Guide” – A Scholarly Search Engine
A recent Google search of the term “civil war” produced 114,000,000 sites, ranging from well-produced digital projects by university teams,…
Researching Online: When Google is Not Enough
When is Google not enough? When it comes to scholarly research, the answer is pretty much always. Google and other…
Blogging the IRB
Members who are troubled about the growing intrusion of Institutional Review Boards over oral history will want to take a…
AHA Council Decides on Public Policies and Professional Issues
In addition to the resolutions adopted at the annual business meeting, the governing Council of the American Historical Association adopted…
The New Year Brings New Perspectives
The January 2007 edition of Perspectives is now available online. Among the highlights: Read Barbara Weinstein’s inaugural column as she…
Teaching American History Grants
This past Monday, January 8th, the U.S. Department of Education began accepting applications for the Teaching American History Grant Program.…
Letter to Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta
In a letter to Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta, Georgia, AHA President Barbara Weinstein, Past President Linda K. Kerber, and…
Status of AHA Business Meeting Resolutions
This year’s annual business meeting was unusually busy, with three resolutions sponsored by members for consideration. Members in attendance adopted…
Reporting on the Annual Meeting
The AHA’s annual meeting received ample coverage from a host of traditional and new media sources about different aspects of…
AHA’s Tomorrow Discussed at the Annual Meeting
On January 5th, at the annual meeting in Atlanta, William Chafe, James Grossman, Lynn Hunt, Earl Lewis, Danielle McGuire, Stefan…
121st Annual Meeting Concludes
Thousands of AHA annual meeting attendees descended upon Atlanta, Georgia last week to attend scholarly sessions, interview for jobs, visit…
On the Road to the Annual Meeting
Many members of the AHA staff are already on their way to Atlanta for the 121st Annual Meeting, which begins…