Getting Ready for the 119th Annual Meeting
The cover of the printed version shows an image of an early 20th-century postcard view of a Tlingit totem pole in Seattle’s Pioneer Square (see essay by Coll Thrush). Image courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, SEA 1900. Cover design by Pillarisetti Sudhir
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AHA Opens Pilot Web Pages on History Doctoral Programs
We recommend that the American Historical Association create a uniform and digitalized departmental checklist of "vital statistics" pertaining to doctoral…
Publishing in 2003: One for the History Books?
History books are among the subjects leading a surge in book publishing over the past year, but the evidence for…
Symposium at Library of Congress Focuses on History Textbooks
From India to France, from Japan to Germany, from the Netherlands to the United States, history textbooks—especially those used to…
Combating Government Secrecy: An Update
One of the defining characteristics of government in the post-9/11 era is an increased emphasis on secrecy. The Patriot Act,…
News Briefs, October 2004
Electronic Records System Competitive Contracts Awarded by NARA In early August 2004, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced…
Research on Students’ Historical Thinking and Learning
For many years, public and professional discourse in the United States has abounded with proposals for revising the form and…
Into the Classroom! Tips and Tricks to Succeed as a Teacher
, chair of the AHA’s Committee for Graduate Students writes: At the January 2004 annual meeting in Washington D.C., the…
Getting Started
A question for graduate students who intend to spend a good portion of their adult lives in the classroom: As…
A Recipe for a Successful Lecture
Close your eyes and picture the best history lecturer you recall from college. Perhaps she is striding back and forth…
Teaching in High-Intensity Mode
Once upon a time there were semesters lasting 15 weeks and courses that met three times per week for about…
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive
A Unique Resource for Historians Because of the technological developments of the past 40 years—radio, television, and the Internet, for…
The Internet and Intellectual Property
In the Internet world, there is no clear definition of how a digital copy is "loaned" or "returned," so the…
Joseph L. Arnold (1938-2004)
Joseph L. Arnold, Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, died on January 5, 2004, at the…
David Chesebrough (1932-2004)
The Rev. David B. Chesebrough died on April 29, 2004, in Normal, Illinois. He was born on March 14, 1932,…
Peter J. Coleman (1926-2004)
Peter Jarrett Coleman, professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, died on March 9, 2004, in…
Russell F. Weigley (1930-2004)
Russell F. Weigley, professor emeritus of American history at Temple University, died at the age of 73 on March 3,…