The 121st Meeting in Atlanta: A Retrospective
The cover art and design of the print version is by Chris Hale.
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From the AHA
Drew Gilpin Faust to Become Harvard University’s President
Drew Gilpin Faust, distinguished historian, and a former vice president of the AHA’s Professional Division (1993–96), will become ‘s president…
Endowment to Be Established for African History Prize
A committee that has been formed to raise funds for establishing a new annual AHA prize in African history invites…
How Much Have We Decentered the Historical Profession?
Back in the early 1970s, while an undergraduate at an unmistakably "elite" university, I announced to a group of fellow…
Public-Private Partnerships: Are They the Wave of the Future?
Over the past year, we have seen federal historical and archival institutions faced with flat or shrinking budgets trying to…
Negotiating Institutional Review Boards
Editor's Note: This essay, along with two by E. Taylor Atkins and Zachary M. Schrag, as well as a bibliography…
Oral History and IRBs: An Update from the 2006 HRPP Conference
Every year PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) sponsors a Human Research Protection Programs (HRPP) conference that brings together…
Ethical Training for Oral Historians
Since the early 1990s, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and oral historians have often found themselves at odds. IRBs unfamiliar with…
An Annotated Select Bibliography
I. Regulations, Policies, Guidelines, and Reports Citro, Constance F., Daniel R. Ilgen, and Cara B. Marrett, eds. Protecting Participants and…
Primary Sources with a Purpose: Learning from Teaching American History Grants
What is important to John Smith? With this one question and replicas of Captain John Smith's 17th-century map of Virginia,…
American Catholic Historical Association Announces Prizes
At its 87th annual meeting—held in Atlanta in conjunction with the 121st annual meeting of the AHA—the American Catholic Historical…
Historians Film Committee at Atlanta
The Historians Film Committee, with the Center for the Study of Film and History, organized a panel entitled "Film and…
Alfred Gollin (1926-2005)
Alfred M. Gollin, professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), was born on February…
John A. Munroe (1914-2006)
John Andrew Munroe died on September 6, 2006, at the age of 92. Munroe was one of Delaware’s best known…
Stow Persons (1913-2006)
Stow Persons, Carver Professor of History emeritus at the University of Iowa, died at his home in Iowa City on…
New Petition Against Florida’s Definition of History
Florida’s A++ Plan, an educational directive passed by the Florida state legislature in 2006, mandates that “American history shall be…
New Exhibit at the National Archives Explores the Early Education of Presidents
Beginning this Friday, March 30th and extending through January 1, 2008, a new exhibit, “School House to White House: The…
Major European Library Joins Google Book Search
The Bavarian State Library, or Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, one of Europe’s most important and most visited research libraries, has joined Google’s…
First Drafts of History at Your Fingertips
Did you know that Miss Elizabeth Murray, the popular young president of the suffragist Political Equality Club of Oakland resigned…
Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small Resigns
Lawrence M. Small, the head of the Smithsonian since 2000, has resigned. According to a press release on the Smithsonian…
Clinton Librarians Accused of Stonewalling Record Requests
Several weeks ago, we reported on the controversy surrounding the plan for a George Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist…
Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small Pressured Inspector General to Call off Audit of his Expenses
After a series of reports in the Washington Post about Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small’s lavish spending of taxpayer dollars, a…
Guidelines for Job Offers in History
In case you missed it, the recent March issue of Perspectives contains an important statement on Guidelines for Job Offers…
A Clear and Presentist Danger
Harvard University professor of psychology Daniel Gilbert recently published Stumbling on Happiness, an informative look at how the human brain…
Washington Update from NCH
The most recent newsletter from the National Coalition for History (NCH) reports on a number of bills recently passed by…
History Salary Growth Lags Behind other Disciplines
The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) recently released the latest salary figures for faculty members. Overall,…
President Poised to Veto Presidential Records Act Bill
Yesterday a Statement of Administrative Policy on H.R. 1255, was posted on the Office of Management and Budget web site.…
If You Post It, They Will Come
The AHA offers two ways for organizations and universities to promote the grants, fellowships, and awards they offer to potential…
February 2007 AHR Now Online
The February issue of the American Historical Review is now available on-line at the History Cooperative. This issue contains the…
Iraq War Resolution is Ratified by AHA Members
Members of the American Historical Association have ratified the “Resolution on United States Government Practices Inimical to the Values of…
Yizkor Books Project Wins ABC-CLIO Online History Award
Faith Jones, librarian in the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library, has been presented the ABC-CLIO Online…
ALERT—Tell Congress to Restore Access to Presidential Records
On March 8, 2007, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously approved H.R. 1255, the “Presidential Records Act Amendments…
Revisit Atlanta in the March Perspectives
The March issue of Perspectives contains numerous articles on the AHA’s 121st Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Read a detailed overview…
Museum of the Confederacy May Secede from Richmond
The Museum of the Confederacy, home to the world’s largest collection of Civil War artifacts, is weighing the possibility of…
AAUP Calls for Cautious Approach to Open Access
In a statement released on February 28, 2007, the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) outlined its position on the…
NCH Washington Update
In the latest NCH Washington Update, Lee White keeps us abreast of the latest history goings-on in the nation’s capital.…
Celebrating Women’s History
March is Women’s History Month, and for the occasion the Library of Congress is honoring a variety of women from…
The Next Generation of History Teachers
Edward Ayers and other participants at a national summer conference in 2006 discussed the question of how to better prepare…
Historian Arthur Schlesinger jr. Dies at 89
Arthur M. Schlesinger jr., one of the most distinguished historians of the 20th and 21st centuries and a life member…
Member Survey about Resolution
On March 1 an electronic ballot was sent to members regarding ratification of the “Resolution on Government Practices Inimical to…
The AHA Remembers: Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
We are saddened to report the passing of Frank M. Snowden Jr., AHA member and authority of the lives of…
Google Tools for Students and Scholars – Part 3: Sketching in 3D
There are many possible educational uses for Google SketchUp, ranging from students creating structures from ancient Rome to designing additions…