The Production of PhDs and the Academic Job Market for Historians
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“Without Change, There’s No Story”: Bynum Considers Complexities of Identity
The 1999 Jefferson Lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was delivered on March 22 in Washington, D.C.,…
GRE History Test to Be Discontinued from 2000
Because of drastically falling registrations, Educational Testing Service, which administers the GRE tests, has decided that the April 2000 test…
Four Historians Receive Pew Fellowships
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has announced the winners of its 1999–2000 Pew Scholars National Fellowship Program.…
The Production of PhDs and the Academic Job Market for Historians
Recent surveys of PhD production in history and academic job openings for historians suggest that employment prospects for history PhDs…
Affiliated Societies, May 1999
Society for French Historical Studies The Society for French Historical Studies has announced the winners of its academic prizes for 1999.…
NCC Advocacy Update, May 1999
Celebrating Women in American History On March 15 the President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History issued a…
Negotiating Histories: Perspectives on Public History
The scholarship of public history includes, among other things, traditional historical monographs, sponsored studies of all kinds, nominations to the…
What Do Federal Historians Do?
Incoming AHA president Robert Darnton surprised the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History during the 1999 AHA annual…
Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio: The Opening of the Roman Inquisition’s Central Archive
The Status Quo Ante In fall 1996, word began to filter out that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the…
Documenting the Death Toll: Research into the Mass Murder of Foreigners in Moscow, 1937-38
We are familiar with the images from the Balkan wars of our times—crumpled figures with gaping head wounds against an…
Grierson Scholarships and the “Agents of Social Change Project”: New Research Opportunities in Women’s History
"I was around only for the beginning; for the planting of an acorn. The greatest satisfaction is to see it…
History, Information Science, and Technology: An Introduction
The name change of this column from "Computers and Software" to "History, Information Science, and Technology" is a deliberate broadening…
New Standards for the Preparation of History Teachers
Two recently developed sets of new standards—the NCSS National Standards for Social Studies Teachers and the NCSS/NCATE Program Standards for…
Members, May 1999
Erving E. Beauregard (Univ. of Dayton) received the Ohioana Library Association Award for distinguished contributions to education. Robert Blackey (California…
E-Publish and Perish?
To the Editor: The recent spate of articles on the potentialities of the Internet brought a wry, and perhaps sardonic…
Is “Reel History” Too Much Fun?
To the Editor: It was with some dismay that I read the most recent edition of Perspectives. Why, may I…
William D. Aeschbacher (1919-98)
William D. Aeschbacher, professor of history emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, passed away October 23, 1998. Prof. Aeschbacher was…
John D. Bell (1942-98)
Prof. John D. Bell of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) history department died of cancer on December 4,…
John E. Fagg (1916-98)
John E. Fagg, noted historian of Latin America and Spain, died Saturday, October 3, 1998, at his home, Westminster Manor,…
Paul Wallace Gates (1901-99)
Paul Wallace Gates, the John Stambaugh Professor Emeritus of History at Cornell University, died on January 5, 1999, at the…
Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910-98)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, formerly professor of history at Yale University and president of Smith College, died July 18, 1998, of…
George Lachmann Mosse (1918-99)
George Lachmann Mosse, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, passed away on January 22, 1999. At a gathering in…
Floyd Mallory Shumway (1917-97)
Floyd Mallory Shumway, retired executive director of the New Haven Colony Historical Society and a former professor of history at…