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...

The pages of Perspectives this month are filled with insights and models for using digitized materials and the Internet to teach, learn, research, and communicate. Implicit beneath these articles, how...

Print will continue well into the future, but history journals should lay the groundwork for eventual online publication, according to participants at a recent conference on History Journals and the E...

The 1999 annual meeting of the Association will be held January 7-10 in Washington, D.C. Members who want to participate in the program of the 1999 meeting must submit their proposals for panels by Fe...

Update on the NEH During his first month as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William R. Ferris indicated that he intends to build on existing programs and to make few programmatic c...

To the Editor: Congratulations! Your new format is a great improvement. I especially liked "Timelines." The articles in it about Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kennedy were most informative and inter...

On November 12 former AHA president John Hope Franklin received the Smithsonian's James Smithsonian Bicentennial Medal in recognition of his contributions as a U.S. historian. The evening began with a...

There is a troubling increase in the use and abuse of part-time and adjunct faculty at the nation's four-year colleges and universities, according to representatives of almost a dozen scholarly societ...

To the Editor: I write regarding "Academic Job Opportunities Better than Expected," which appeared in the October 1997 Perspectives. I appreciate Perspectives's close watch on the job market. But the...