Nixon Tapes Cut Before Return to Family Following years of legal battles, a federal appeals court ruled this spring that the National Archives must provide the Nixon estate "forthwith" all private and...

This year's J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship was awarded to Patrick J. Rael, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. The fel...

Salaries for historians at colleges and universities rose faster than the rate of inflation for the third year in a row last year. However, for the first time, surveys by the College and University Pe...

I realize that dissatisfaction with the American Historical Review is one source of discontent among historians that has spawned groups like the Historical Society. Indeed, I share the concern that th...

Over the last four years, one of the themes sounded frequently in this column has been the added capacity gained by the AHA when it works in synergistic collaboration with other organizations—in advoc...

The AHA's 1999 annual meeting will have as its theme "Diasporas and Migrations in History."1 This has been welcomed by those whose scholarly interest and research focus on what has come to be called t...

September 1—Housing opens. September 20—Job Register forms sent to history departments. September 30—Dues must be paid and address changes registered with the Membership Department in order to receive...

The 1998 AHA annual meeting in Seattle was attended by 3,658 people, and offered a record number of official sessions. Detailed evaluations by session chairs of 76 sessions (49 percent) confirm that t...

Editor's Note: This essay is one of two responses to Peter Stearns's suggestion in the May issue that one of the PhD oral examinations may be focused on teaching. Some great teachers are born, but mos...

Editor's Note: For guidelines and helpful suggestions regarding submission of proposals, see Patrick Manning's "Preparing Your Proposal for the Year 2000 Annual Meeting." The annual meeting of the Ass...