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...

Following widespread protests, and criticism in the media, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania appeared to rescind its earlier decision to gradually divest itself of various artifacts. This summer ...

In June, the National Trust for Historic Preservation issued its annual list of the United States's "11 Most Endangered Historic Places." This year's listing includes such noteworthy sites as Ellis Is...

Seattle has a wealth of good restaurants, with especially fine Asian, Italian, and seafood establishments. Many restaurants use fresh regional ingredients, feature Northwest wines and serve local micr...

Meeting Registration AHA meeting registration will be located in the Washington State Convention and Trade Center's Fourth Level Lobby. Hours of operation are Thursday, January 8, from 12 to 7 p.m.; F...

Housing The 1998 annual meeting will be held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center and the Sheraton Seattle and the Westin Seattle hotels. Members must make reservations by returning a h...

Graduate students attending their first annual meeting may find it to be a little more overwhelming than they might have suspected. Usually there are more than four thousand people in attendance and t...

A munificent gift of $10 million from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman in honor of Brooke Astor will enable the New York Public Library to set up a new humanities center to foster innovative explorations ...

The general meeting of the American Historical Association will take place on Friday, January 9, at 8:30 p.m. in the Sheraton's Metropolitan Ballroom. President-elect Joseph C. Miller (Univ. of Virgin...

Editor's Note: Participants at the Association's annual meeting in Seattle will receive the pamphlet Seattle A to Y: A Historical Lexicon by Scott Cline and Richard H. Engeman along with the other ann...