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From the AHA
2002 Gutenberg-e Workshop
Most scholars who transform their dissertations into books find the experience a lonely one, lacking even the solace of fellow…
Mining the Treasures of the Valley of the Shadow
For almost a decade, the Valley of the Shadow project has been hailed as an exemplary online archive. Created at…
Veterans History Project Launched
The Library of Congress American Folklife Center has announced the creation of the Veterans History Project (VHP). Created by the…
Records Withdrawn from Public Access
Much to the dismay of historians and other scholars, thousands of pages of historically valuable documents that served as the…
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Receives NEH Honor
It was standing room only in Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Building on March 22, 2002, when Harvard University Professor Henry…
NARA Releases 1930 Census Records
April 1, 2002, was an exciting day for historians, genealogists, and the National Archives. On that day, microfilm records of…
War Crimes Report Released
The National Archives and Records Administration has published a substantive new report to Congress on the declassification of records concerning…
Applications Invited for Teaching American History Grants
A notice that appeared in the Federal Register of April 3, 2002, announced that the "Teaching American History" application package…
Your Name in This Space: The Mysteries of Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly publishing disseminates the work through which we identify ourselves as scholars. It is the principal means by which we…
All of Tomorrow’s Yesterdays: History Scholarship on the Web
It seems we have arrived at a point of general agreement that historical scholarship can be published online without losing…
Digital Technology and Historical Scholarship: A Publishing Experiment
As the difficulties with publication of monographs in some fields of history intensify, and as digital technology continues to make…
Against Presentism
Who isn't, you say? Hardly any "ism" these days has much of a scholarly following. Yet presentism besets us in…
An Intellectual Adventure
I am very much in agreement with your overall sentiments. Studying history should be an intellectual adventure, and should be…
A Chronic Condition
Is someone of roughly your generation (AB, Cornell 1973; PhD, Chicago 1980), I found your observations apt and compelling. On reflection,…
A Profession and a Priesthood
I will confess to divided views on professionalization as you describe it. On the one hand, academia is a profession,…
The Time for Dialogue Is Over
I am an executive at IBM, where I have been working for nearly 28 years. I have a PhD in…
Where Has the Joy Gone?
Bravo. Great article in Perspectives. Where, indeed, has the joy gone? I remember clearly (don’t we all?) someone who inspired me…
Radical Reform of Adjunct Instruction
I was briefly happy to see a survey on adjunct teaching in the March issue of Perspectives. This survey, I…