Humanities on the Hill In Maya coalition of nine humanities organizations, spearheaded by the Federation of State Humanities Councils, hosted "Humanities on the Hill," which featured three events: a "...

Over the past several decades the Committee on Women Historians has received a steadily increasing number of requests for the AHA to develop a set of professional guidelines for spousal and partner hi...

Two thousand students in grades 6 through 12 will gather June 14–18, 1998, at the University of Maryland at College Park for the 19th annual National History Day competition. The students, all top fin...

Fredrick Aandahl died on December 25, 1997, at the age of 78, in Princeton, New Jersey, following a long illness. Born in Portland, Oregon, he received his BA from Reed College in 1941 and his MA and ...

Editor's Note: Peter Stearns, vice president of the AHA's Teaching Division from 1994 to 1997, has submitted the following as a call for discussion on this important topic. The editor invites response...

A California commission on academic standards for K–12 students recently began work on the history curriculum and pledged to include input from historians at all levels. The Academic Standards Commiss...

A recently published book raised the question of a coming crisis of history in France. But the notion was already so controversial that the author made a point of putting quotation marks around the wo...

Editor's Note: The following is the text of a talk given at the Committee on Women Historians' breakfast on January 10, 1998, during the AHA annual meeting. The talk was based on Hunt's "Democratizati...

John A. Phillips, professor of modern British history at the University of California at Riverside, died in an automobile accident on January 14, 1998. He was 48. Phillips's love for all things Britis...

Although his name was often mispronounced and misspelled, probably no American historian of recent times was as widely known to the public as Henry Steele Commager. Many had studied from his textbooks...