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...

Please read this page before calling the Washington Convention and Visitors Association (WCVA) Housing Service. For prices, see the Hotel Rate and Information sheet. To make reservations for the annua...

We have read with interest accounts of the formation of the Historical Society which offer as one rationale the frustration of its founders with the annual AHA meeting program. As the most recent coch...

Philip Bigler, a history teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, was honored as the 1998 Teacher of the Year. In a ceremony at the White House o...

I'll try to respond to your inquiries, but in general rather than sequentially. I am an agnostic about the value of the new Association. Clearly it cannot replace—nor does it aspire to—the many profes...

Thank you for your inquiry about my reaction to the launching of the Historical Society, about which I have been learning mainly via the net. So it is from this position of partial knowledge that I of...

The purpose of the Program Committee shall be to develop a program for the annual meeting that will promote excellence in research and teaching and the discussion of significant professional issues, ...

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. Peter Stearns's suggestion has consid...