World War II in Soviet Film
The image on the front cover is a set design painting for the film Come and See. Tempera on plywood, by Viktor Valentinovich Petrov (b.1947) / State Museum and Exhibition Centre, Moscow, courtesy The Bridgeman Art Library International.
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Who Are the New History PhDs? NSF Snapshot from 2010 Provides Insights into Current Trends
After three years of growth, the number of new PhDs drifted slightly lower in the 2009–10 academic year—declining from 1,045…
AHA Members Receive Humanities Medals
Two AHA members—Robert Darnton, who served as president of the AHA for 1999, and who is the Carl Pforzheimer University…
Nationwide Tuning Project for Undergraduate History Programs Launched
The American Historical Association (AHA) is initiating a nationwide, faculty-led project to articulate the core of historical study and to…
Masters at the Movies, Take 18: Denise Youngblood on Elem Klimov’s Come and See
We can all point to movies that impressed us greatly because they portrayed the horrors of war in memorable ways.All…
Apocalyptic Visions of the Great Patriotic War: Elem Klimov’s Come and See
One of the many harrowing images from Come and See (dir. Elem Klimov, 1986). Photo courtesy Kino International. It’s a…
Professional Boredom
One of the paradoxes of history is that no other academic discipline has done a better job of retaining a…
History, Civics, and Making the Engaged Citizen
At the AHA’s 126th annual meeting in January 2012, Sandra Day O’Connor (retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court),…
Teaching History across Borders: The Collaboration between York and Arizona State Universities
Our story begins in the spring of 2006, when Adrian Shubert, then associate vice president international and a member of…
Integrating Gender and Political History into Courses on Post-1945 U.S. History
The tendency of textbooks and courses related to Post-1945 U.S. History to focus exclusively on the feminism of the 1960s…
Paths of Progress for the History Major
Study Abroad, Curricular Reform among Ways Tested in Project Supported by the Teagle Foundation Making the most of study abroad…
Participants in the 2012 Seminar on Decolonization
The following is a list of the 15 scholars who have been selected to take part in the seventh international…
Member News, March 2012
Editor’s Note: The purpose of this column, which is published in Perspectives on Historyas space permits, is to recognize and…
Benjamin F. Brown IV (1930–2011)
Historian of Modern Italy With the death of Benjamin F. Brown IV on November 28, 2011, the field of modern…
Tai Liu (1930–2011)
Historian of 17th-Century England Scholar of Chinese Culture Tai Liu, professor of history emeritus at the University of Delaware, died…
Publishing Your Dissertation Online—Understanding Policies
Professional Division Statement on Electronic Publication of Theses and Dissertations As graduation season approaches, the AHA’s Professional Division urges graduate…
The Difficulty of Citing Tweets
Not long after the Modern Language Association (MLA) published its protocol for how to cite a tweet, its executive director…
AHA’s Executive Director Testifies for Humanities Funding
NEH Vital to Understanding our Past, Planning Our Future AHA Executive Director James Grossman testifies before the House Committee on…
History Blueprint: New Website for History Education
History Blueprint is a new history teaching website spearheaded by the California History-Social Science Project at the University of California, Davis.…
This Week in Futurism: Finding the Historian in the Next Archive, Museum, and Library
AHA president William Cronon’s recent article in the March 2012 issue of Perspectives on History explained how to avoid professional…
AHA Member Spotlight: Taylor Stoermer
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. This new AHA…
Bancroft Prize Winners – 2012
Congratulations to the 2012 winners of Columbia University’s prestigious Bancroft Prize. The three historians, all AHA members, are Anne F.…
Help Restore the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History
The endowment for the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History, established in 1983 with contributions from members of AHA…
Women’s History Month: Meet Nellie Neilson
Nellie Neilson Image courtesy of Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Many of the stories we will hear during…
The New American History Pamphlet Series – Now Discounted
All pamphlets in the AHA’s New American History series have now been significantly reduced in price to $2 each. Visit…
100 Years of Cherry Blossoms
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is celebrating 100 years of cherry trees in the Washington Tidal Basin. Each year around…
Expanding the Gilbert Award for Articles on History Teaching
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the expansion of the William Gilbert Award for the Best Article on…
Perspectives on History – March 2012
The March 2012 issue of Perspectives online is now available. Some articles are gated, but can be accessed by AHA…