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...

Editor's Note: We are delighted to note that several of the letters we are publishing below were sent through e-mail, reflecting the increasing use of new technology by our readers. Whatever the mode ...

Contributing Editor's Note: The following essay and the one by Greg O'Brien on page 35 highlight the experiences of faculty and students in departments undergoing downsizing. These essays are based on...

Fiscal 1998 Appropriations Although the appropriations process is not yet over at the time we go to press, there is good news to report on the fiscal 1998 budgets of a number of federal agencies. On O...

Arthur Zilversmit (Lake Forest Coll.), chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 1997 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Associatio...

The terror, futility, and destructiveness of war have been with us since time immemorial. Because conflict is central to the story of humanity, scholars have studied and been fascinated by war and its...

On a gloomy October day in 1995, the chair of the University of Wyoming's history department summoned all graduate students in the department to a meeting. He announced that the doctoral program no lo...

William Ferris May Head NEH The president has announced his intention to nominate William Ferris, the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississi...

The training of teaching assistants (TAs) has always been something of an anomaly in the modern research university. Since World War II the attention of faculty in such institutions has generally been...