To the Editor: Kudos for featuring Patricia Nelson Limerick's "Has 'Minority' History Transformed the Historical Discourse?" in the November Perspectives. Indeed, too often, as she writes, "with our a...

Editor's Note: The purpose of this column, which is published in the newsletter as space permits, is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of AHA members. Submissions are welcome. To submit an en...

In January 1994 the AHA Council established a task force on part-time and adjunct faculty on the recommendation of the Professional Division then chaired by Drew Gilpin Faust. Elizabeth Perry, an adju...

Senate Confirms Ferris to Head NEH On November 9 the Senate voted unanimously to confirm noted folklorist Bill Ferris as the next chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Because ther...

Dear AHA Members: I am writing to you in my capacity as the chair of the 1998 Nominating Committee to encourage you to recommend potential candidates for president-elect, Council, divisions, and commi...

For reasons I've never been able to fathom, I once sat down and read through the AHA presidential addresses in the American Historical Review. The occasion was a year I spent in Paris with my husband ...

Editor's Note: This essay launches a new series in which we aim to bring readers excerpts from, or features based on, the records and reports of the Association. We also welcome contributions reflecti...

In 1980 Jack Gagliardo noted that the Holy Roman Empire had "virtually disappeared from modern European history textbooks." The situation has probably gotten worse in the past 15 years. Despite the ef...

Perhaps the most interesting characteristic of current scholarship is the international context in which all of us work. The nuanced differences in interpretation that have been shaped by educational ...

Late afternoon of Friday, March 28, 1997, the phone rang in the history office of the University of Alabama. Kay Branyon, our department secretary, informed me that Cinqué Henderson from DreamWorks st...