The 116th Annual Meeting: A Retrospective
The cover illustration—from a participant-observer’s sketch book—is by Christian Hale.
Staff
Reynolds Foundation Withdraws Support to the Smithsonian Institution
On February 4, 2002, in a short letter to Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence M. Small, Catherine B. Reynolds announced that she…
Langum Project for Historical Literature
The Langum Project for Historical Literature recently announced the winner of its annual prize in legal history/legal biography for 2001.…
International Museum of Women to Be Developed in San Francisco
The International Museum of Women, which began as the Women's Heritage Museum in 1985 with the mission of making women"s…
NARA to Release Census Data
On April 1, 2002, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will release the 1930 Federal population census. At that…
New Guide to Women’s History Resources
The Library of Congress has published American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and…
Where Have All the Theories Gone?
Marxism, modernization theory, poststructuralism, and even feminism have ceased to be topics of heated debate among historians. In fact, "theory"…
WHA Book Award for Mike Davis
The World History Association Book Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2002 prize is Mike…
UHA Awards Announced
The Urban History Association awarded Hanchao Lu, professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Tech, its…
American Catholic Historical Association Prizes Announced
The American Catholic Historical Association at its 82nd annual meeting (held in conjunction with the AHA's annual meeting in San…
Looking for Learning in the History Survey
We were talking about memorable courses in college. "I remember calculus," someone recalled. "The professor began classes standing on the…
Robert Cuff (1941-2001)
York University's Department of History and the Schulich School of Business lost a beloved colleague with the sudden passing of…
Hans Rogger (1923-2002)
Hans Rogger, the distinguished historian of imperial Russia and Professor of History at UCLA, died in Los Angeles on January…