Editor's Note: This is the second article in a new series on and by eminent practitioners of history; the first was the 1996 Lincoln Prize acceptance speech of David Herbert Donald. We had already sch...

Gail Leftwich, a former president of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, has been appointed the new president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The...

Eminent historian, former AHA president, and Harvard University professor Bernard Bailyn has been chosen to deliver the 1998 Jefferson Lecture in the humanities. The lectureship is the U.S. government...

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has awarded $397,332, its largest records grant ever, to an innovative partnership of the New York State Archives and Records Administration...

Many who write and teach history have been intrigued and even excited by the proliferation of historical web sites that keep materializing out of the ether. They increasingly use the Internet as a res...

After years of considering how (and what) technology could best be used in introductory history survey courses, the humanities division at the Loudoun campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NV...

I. The Web as Superbibliography By original professional affiliation I am a Latin Americanist, and while my research has increasingly taken me further and further abroad, I still retain substantial in...

Mention the Internet to historians, and you will invariably hear them talk about their favorite web site. Some might grumble about slow transfer times, or web sites with too many graphics. Others will...

Editor's Note: This essay is a revised and abridged version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, in Minneapolis, October 17, 1997. I am the editor of a...

The wave of the present. That is how Christopher Tomlins elsewhere in this issue so evocatively describes the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the changes both are bringing to scholarly publishing. P...