History and the Changing Landscape of Information
The cover art of the print version is by Chris Hale.
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Graduate Students’ Resources Page Gets Updated
The Committee for Graduate Students, chaired by Elise S. Lipkowitz, has, working in collaboration with Elisabeth Grant, AHA's web content…
AHA Launches Online Directory of History Journals
Tired of time-consuming searches on the internet for finding the perfect forum for your latest scholarly essay? Help is at…
NHA Holds Conference and Humanities Advocacy Day
The 2007 conference of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) was held March 26–27, 2007, in Washington, D.C. The event began…
AHA Today: Yesterday and Tomorrow
In September 2006, the AHA launched its blog, AHA Today, on the Web at https://blog.historians.org. Now with the publication of…
History and the Changing Landscape of Information: An Editor’s Note
Several times in its recent history Perspectives has focused special attention on a theme. Sometimes, this was the result of…
Zotero: Social and Semantic Computing for Historical Scholarship
The Library of Congress contains over a million dissertations. Each of these works represents an average of four years of…
The Digital History Reader: Teaching Resources for United States and European History
Did the First World War cause the revolution in Russia? Why did Virginia colonists decide to import slaves from Africa?…
Talking Shop with the “Gutenberg-es”
Becoming an accomplished academic historian, as with a career in any field, is a stressful and burdensome process. The demands…
H-Net: Digital Discussion for Historians
As they say, if you haven't seen H-Net recently, you haven’t seen H-Net. Now topping 180,000 subscribers to 181 individual…
Enhancing Internet Use for History by Categorizing Online Resources
Historians have learned steadily over the past decade of the extraordinary resources the internet offers for their research. Indeed, the…
Blogging for Your Students
Historians commonly use the World Wide Web to enhance their courses. In so many ways, the internet has moved us…
Doing History in the Digital Age
I usually don't relish reading my teaching evaluations. Once draped in the cloak of anonymity, students can be quite unkind…
Clio and the Bloggers
Every weekday morning, nowadays, I start work with a trip. I rise, like most codgers, before the sun. I make…
Creating a Virtual Student Community at the University of Maryland
The sudden explosion of internet-based classes has sparked concerns and debates within higher education, focused on issues of instructional quality,…
Experimental History in the Classroom
"Experimental History. Is anybody interested?" So read a headline in the December 1992 issue of Perspectives. Curious, I read on.…
World History for Us All: An Innovative World History Curriculum
The remarkable success of the College Board's Advanced Placement program in world history is one sign of a new commitment…
Of Matters Small and Great
On March 26, 2007, Roger W. Sant, chair of the executive committee of the Smithsonian Institution's board of regents announced…
New Web Site for the National Coalition for History
In April, the National Coalition for History (NCH) launched a new, attractively informative web site at www.historycoalition.org. This is an…
Sixteenth Annual World History Association Conference
The World History Association will celebrate its 25th Anniversary at its 16th Annual Conference in downtown Milwaukee, 28 June–1 July…
Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007)
Winthrop D. Jordan died in his home in Oxford, Mississippi, on February 23, 2007, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou…
Lawrence W. Levine (1933-2006)
On October 23, 2006, Lawrence W. Levine, American historian at the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University,…
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., one of the most renowned and influential historians and intellectuals of the 20th century, died February…
George Brown Tindall (1921-2006)
George Brown Tindall, Kenan Professor of History emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died December 2,…
Electronic Archive of Charles Darwin’s Correspondence Now Available
Over the course of his life Charles Darwin, like so many Victorians, was a prolific letter writer, corresponding with as…
Aperture Foundation Photograph Exhibits
The Aperture Foundation is sponsoring several major photograph exhibits of interest to historians and patrons of the arts in the…
Ancestry.com Makes Military Records Open to the Public Until June 6, 2007
From Memorial Day 2007 (yesterday) until D-Day, June 6, 2007, the popular web site ancestry.com is making all military records…
Upcoming Colloquium: “A Day With James McPherson”
James McPherson, respected Civil War historian and past AHA president, will partake in a daylong colloquium in Andover, Massachusetts on…
Upcoming Conference Focuses on Tribal Cultural Preservation
The 2007 National Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums will take place this October 23-25 in downtown Oklahoma City.…
Holocaust Memorial Museum to Receive Electronic Documents from International Tracing Service Archives
For 60 years the International Tracing Service (ITS), located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, has held the largest closed Holocaust archive…
In Memoriam Eugen Weber, 1925–2007
Eugen Weber, AHA life member and the recipient of the Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction for 1999, died on Thursday,…
“American Heritage” to Become History?
The April/May 2007 issue of American Heritage, that picturesque, literate doyen of popular history magazines, may be its last, at…
NAEP’s History Lesson
Back in the early 1990s I represented the Organization of American Historians, where I served as Executive Director, on the…
In Memory of Alfred D. Chandler Jr.: 1918-2007
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the man Fortune magazine once described as “America’s pre-eminent business historian,” died last week at the…
Historian David Nasaw Honored at Weekend with History
On April 27-28, 2007, the New-York Historical Society held its annual Weekend with History gala event. This two-day program of…
New Fund for Oral History of Physicists in Industry
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced a new endowment designed to collect and preserve oral histories of those…
High-School History Text Divides Cambodians
A new textbook on the history of the Khmer Rouge—the Cambodian Communist faction which murdered an estimated 1.7 million people…
History Teachers Association in Europe Asks for Better Leave Policy
In a statement issued on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, the board of EUROCLIO, the European Standing Conference of History Teachers’…
From the Archives: History and Technology
As yesterday’s blog post noted, the May issue of Perspectives has a theme: “History and the Changing Landscape of Information,”…
May Perspectives: History and the Changing Landscape of Information
This month’s issue of Perspectives is centered on a theme: “History and the Changing Landscape of Information.” The collection of…
Bolivian Historian One Step Closer to Obtaining a Visa
The Chronicle’s News Blog reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved Bolivian historian Dr. Waskar Ari’s employment-visa…
Off the Record…
We at the AHA spend a lot of time wondering about what happens after a job ad appears in Perspectives…
The AHA Remembers: Robert M. Warner
The AHA is saddened to report the death of Robert M. Warner on April 24, 2007, in Ann Arbour, Michigan,…
Promoting Progress: Register for this Interactive Workshop
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the fifth in a series of workshops for department chairs, directors of…
Archiving Tragedy, Promoting Healing
On April 16, 2007, just a few short weeks ago, Virginia Tech experienced a tragedy that made headlines across the…
Food for the Intellect
Judging from the faculty listings in the AHA Directory, you might think that intellectual history had fallen on hard times.…
New Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Include Historians
AHA members Isabel V. Hull (Cornell Univ.), Sabine G. MacCormack (Univ. of Notre Dame), Peter C. Perdue (MIT), and life…
Now Online: The April Issue of the American Historical Review
Visit the April issue of the American Historical Review online. This issue contains three articles and two review essays. The…