History in New York
The cover shows a view, circa 1900, of the City Hall, New York. Digital copy of photomechanical print produced by the Detroit Photographic Company, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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By Degrees: A Big Year for History
History departments conferred an almost unprecedented number of undergraduate degrees in 2005–06. The U.S. Department of Education reports that American…
The NCPH and AASLH Meetings: A Report
Editor’s Note: Debbie Ann Doyle, the AHA’s public history coordinator, attended two of the most important meetings of public historians…
AHA Launches Task Force on Disability, Seeks Input from Members
The American Historical Association aspires to be an inclusive organization open to all who study the past. In the interest…
Readers Generally Pleased with Perspectives on History, Survey Reveals
An online survey conducted in May-June 2008 of readers of Perspectives on History and of Perspectives Online indicates that on…
News Briefs, November 2008
Federal Court Orders Vice President to Preserve Records On September 20, 2008, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the office…
Remembering Repression: The GULAG as an NPS Exhibit
Editor’s Note: The following essay is part of a series on the National Parks that was conceptualized and coordinated by…
Using Book Tests to Get Students to Read
It will come as no surprise to college teachers that many students resist reading. This is the case even in…
Masters at the Movies, Take 6
Under the rubric “Masters at the Movies,” this column features a variety of articles about film crafted by some of…
A Life in American Cinema: The Nuclear Option
It’s a bit ironic that films loom large in some of my scholarly work, because I came late to the…
Launching an Institute for Historical Studies
Eighteen months ago the history department at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) confronted a problem most departments in…
More on Goya and Getting Medieval
To the Editor: As a fellow medievalist I enjoyed reading Gabrielle Spiegel’s article in the September 2008 issue ofPerspectives on…
Members, November 2008
Editor's Note: The purpose of this column, which is published inPerspectives on History as space permits, is to recognize and…
Ana Margarita Gomez (1963-2008)
Ana M. Gómez, assistant professor of history at William Paterson University of New Jersey, died on February 11, 2008, after…
Jules Tygiel (1949-2008)
Jules Tygiel, a preeminent historian of American baseball, died in San Francisco on July 1, 2008, after a two-and-a-half-year battle…
From the ArchivesWiki: George Meany Memorial Archives
While a research trip to Washington, D.C. usually means a stop at the Library of Congress or National Archives, labor…
November Perspectives: History in New York
As the “History in New York” title suggests this month’s issue of Perspectives on History contains numerous articles on the…
Historians Among Winners of 2008 National Humanities Medals
President George W. Bush awarded the 2008 National Humanities Medals and National Medals of Arts at the White House this…
Executive Director Search Begins at the OAH
The Organization of American Historians has called for applications from qualified individuals who wish to be considered for the position…
Jobs and Careers in History: Interview with Richard Gillespie – Part Two
Part one of this interview, which appeared on the blog on Monday, with Richard Gillespie examined his current position as…
Civil War Historians Sought for Times Topics
The New York Times is seeking the help of Civil War historians for their Times Topics project. The Times Topics…
Jobs and Careers in History: Interview with Richard Gillespie – Part One
This post is first in a new series, titled Jobs and Careers in History, to be featured on AHA Today.…
Presidential Recordings Program
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has a useful resource for historians in their Presidential…
2009 Annual Meeting Program – Now Online
The Program for the 123rd Annual Meeting is now available online. Use it to: Search for events and sessions by…
Picturing U.S. History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence
It seems everywhere we turn today we’re reading and hearing about new digital media fronts, especially when it comes to…
2009 Annual Meeting Reminders
It’s November already, which means the AHA’s 123rd Annual Meeting is just a few short months away. To help you…