Gregory C. Kozlowski, professor of history at DePaul University, died in Evanston, Illinois, on May 29, 2002, after suffering complications in the wake of heart surgery. A scholar of South Asian and I...

According to the special report in the American Historical Review (April 1941), "a quarter of the sessions and more than a third of the meals" at the AHA's annual meeting in 1940 "were devoted to a sw...

Hugh Davis Graham, the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, died on March 26, 2002, of esophageal cancer at his new home in Santa Barbara, California. He was only 65. Wit...

When historians get together, discussion often turns to the humorous responses and assorted malapropisms that all have found on various exams or in assigned papers: that Woody Guthrie was the economis...

On September 21, 2002, Dr. Alice Hamilton will posthumously receive a National Historic Chemical Landmark Award from the American Chemical Society. The event is part of a conference entitled "Alice Ha...

Dramatically increased interest in "globalization," as either a propitious or worrisome phenomenon, has presented academics concerned with international topics with both new opportunities and new chal...

The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a wide-ranging review of the processes of assessing and rating PhD programs in advance of their next decennial survey, slated for 2005. While the NRC...

In the 1980s senior history majors at Mary Washington College often referred to their capstone project, Historical Research, as "hysterical research," having realized that they were not prepared for t...

War and Peace: History and the Dynamics of Human Conflict and Cooperation By Joe W. Trotter and John Thornton The 118th annual meeting of the Association will be held in Washington, D.C., January 8–11...

The History Cooperative continues to expand and improve its services with the incorporation of limited searches of back issues on JSTOR , and the addition of two new journals. The History Cooperative ...