1998 Award for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year a nominating jury composed of three forme...

The complex entanglement of history and memory has recently been recognized as a key issue for historians. It has sparked interest in commemoration, museum displays, historical fiction, and popular fi...

More than a decade in the making, the 24-volume American National Biography (ANB) has just been published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies (AC...

The 113th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held January 7–10, 1999, in Washington, D.C., continued a string of successful meetings, with more than 4,500 in attendance, despite se...

The dream of the virtual library comes forward now not because it promises an exciting future, but because it promises a future that will be just like the past, only better and faster.—James J. O'Donn...

Will the increasing use of computers in the classroom revolutionize education in the United States? In the short term, I doubt that the utilization of new media resources will fulfill the optimistic p...

Quite unexpectedly, this issue turned into a sequel to last year's special issue on the effect of the new information technologies on the practice of history. As the surveys by the AHA and Dennis Trin...

Court Petitioned to Grant Access to Alger Hiss Records On December 15 Public Citizen filed a petition in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York seeking an order releasing 50-year...

Use of the Internet and World Wide Web has become an intrinsic part of the work of academic historians, according to an AHA survey of history departments in the United States and Canada. More than 75 ...

The speed of technological change in computing and electronic communication over the past few years has been nothing short of breathtaking. Seven years ago few outside of computer science had ever hea...