To the Editor: Many thanks for ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball’s rumination on research, noting the importance of “serendipitous historical discovery” (“History by Text and Thing,” Perspectives on History, March...

Charles Royster, a student of early America and the Civil War, died on February 6, 2020. 

Karl Hufbauer, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine, died on January 28, 2020, at his home in Seattle, Washington, after a long struggle with diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

After a life of adventure with books and in the outdoors, Roger H. Brown passed away on March 19, 2020, at 88 years old.

To the Editor: I read with interest ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball’s recent article, “History by Text and Thing” (Perspectives on History, March 2020). I agreed and disagreed, as you’ll see reflected in my upco...

On April 3, 2020, the AHA Council approved this statement.

Joel Williamson died on November 9, 2019, at the age of 90, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Sarah E. Patterson is a research historian at SNA International/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. She lives in Bellevue, Nebraska, and has been a member since 2015.

This year marks the bicentennial of the Haitian Republic. The latest issue of the AHR includes both a Forum and a Roundtable on the place of Haitian history in the Atlantic world.

The erection of a Kehinde Wiley statue in the former Confederate capital is part of Richmond's latest struggle with Civil War history.