Headquarters staff straggled into Washington from the annual meeting in San Francisco all during the first week in January, eyes still bloodshot from their long hours working the Hilton corridors and ...

Dear Editor, Diane Ravitch's letter in the October 1989 issue of Perspectives illustrates exactly the problem we were trying to overcome in our essay, "Running Out of Time," which appeared in the Marc...

Dear Editor, Linda Gordon's informative and helpful piece, "Successful Interviewing," in the November 1989 Perspectives, inadvertently reveals one of the historical profession's most persistent proble...

1989 Awards for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established an award entitled the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year the Nominating Committ...

Currently, eighty-eight different historical organizations are affiliated with the AHA. AHA affiliates are a diverse group that include the American Studies Association, the History of Science Society...

United States regional history as an instructional field in American colleges and universities dates to the last decade of the nineteenth century. The Johns Hopkins University reportedly offered the f...

Dear Editor, It was nice to read Susan Shapiro's article about the teaching of Latin American history as part of high school and university curricula. The main reasons for her position are a) the 7.9 ...

The National Commission on Social Studies in the Schools published in late November the report of its Curriculum Task Force, Charting a Course: Social Studies for the 21st Century. The cochairs of the...

The AHA's Research Division recently announced awards made to support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Funds for the grant program come from the earnings of a bequest from Bernadot...

While David L. Ransel, editor of the Review, is a 1989–90 fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., the editorship of the Review has been left in the capable ...