All Articles

  • The State of History Education: History Standards and the States

    November 1, 1997

    As Education Secretary Richard W. Riley declared in February 1997, during his State of American Education Address at the Carter Center, "If ever there was a time to push American education to a higher...

  • What Is a TA?

    November 1, 1997

    Recent "labor" unrest at Yale and other universities by teaching assistants (TAs) has illuminated problems of communication between administration, faculty, and graduate students. Considerable confusi...

  • Highlights of the 1998 Annual Meeting

    November 1, 1997

    The 112th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 8-11, 1998, in Seattle, at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, the Sheraton Seattle, and the Westin S...

  • Japanese History in the Dock

    November 1, 1997

    For a long time, school textbooks in Japan were produced by the government. This changed in 1948, when a system of "screening" by the Ministry of Education was introduced, This system allowed many pri...

  • The History Course Portfolio

    November 1, 1997

    Most historians working in American higher education today make a sharp distinction between research and teaching. Accustomed to spending long hours working alone in archives, libraries, and at home, ...

  • Seattle: Where the Old and the New Meet

    November 1, 1997

    Editor's Note: The area code for all telephone numbers in this article is 206. This article, other electronic links to Seattle, and meeting-related information are all available on the AHA Web site. F...

  • Program Committee Chairs Report for the 1998 Meeting

    November 1, 1997

    The 1998 annual meeting in Seattle will offer a record number of sessions representing the enormous range of historical fields and topics of inquiry. The program committee made a special call for comp...

  • Public History in New Zealand

    November 1, 1997

    Editor's Note: The two articles on this page mark the launch of a new series of essays and features that provide an international perspective on the profession. We especially welcome contributions fro...

  • The "Endangered Monograph": Why Aren't Scholars Lying Awake Worrying?

    November 1, 1997

    For two days in early September, representatives of learned societies, university presses, and campus libraries examined the changing circumstances of monograph publishing from their different perspec...

  • Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts

    November 1, 1997

    Recent struggles and debates around the rather tentative concept of multiculturalism in the Western democracies have often fueled discussions of minority histories. The question has arisen in all demo...