When you hear the term "graduate student radicalism," you probably picture angry protestors gathered on a college campus in the late 1960s. By then, graduate students had spent a decade within the civ...

Editor's Note: We are delighted to welcome Annette Atkins (College of St. Benedict–St. John's) as contributing editor for the Teaching column of Perspectives. She succeeds David Trask, whose valedicto...

The distinguished scholar of French history, J. Russell Major, died of cancer on December 12, 1998, at the age of 77. Major graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1942 and went on to serve ...

To the Editor: I was very surprised to see that the only response to Ted Margadant's article "The Production of PhDs" (Perspectives, May 1999) published in the September Perspectives concerned the suc...

In his attack on the Reel History issue of Perspectives (April 1999), Professor Rosenstone says the special issue implies that the articles "represent the current state of research on the relationship...

Former AHA President Thomas Cochran, a pioneer in the field of American economic history, passed away on April 29, 1999, his 97th birthday. Cochran received a BS and MA from New York University, befor...

Editor's Note: We print below the text of a eulogy delivered by Robert Darnton at a memorial service held in Princeton on October 1, 1999, to remember Lawrence Stone. We think of Lawrence as a master ...

David Allan Hamer, who died unexpectedly in Wellington, New Zealand on May 16, 1999, was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1938. He was awarded a BA and MA with first class honors in history from Auck...

The April 1999 Perspectives special issue, "Reel History," seems to prove that the history profession follows the example of the Bourbon Kings—we forget nothing, and we learn nothing. This is not mean...

George Barker Engberg, professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, died April 11, 1999, in Rochester, New York, at the age of 86. His life was marked by a remarkable capacity to balance and me...