Contributing Editor's Note: This essay not only delineates a structure and language for teaching about race in Latin America, it also represents a useful introduction for historians looking to strengt...

Historians aren't used to identifying themselves personally with labor unrest, but the Teamsters' strike of the United Parcel Service hit a sensitive nerve because it pushed part-time employment to th...

The proportion of history Ph.D.’s employed in the academy fell to its lowest level in 20 years, while salaries for younger historians have risen at a slower pace than those of their more senior collea...

At his last public appearance as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Sheldon Hackney was quoted as giving his potential successors the tongue-in-cheek advice of "stay where you ...

Accommodations The 112th annual meeting of the AHA will be held in Seattle, at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, the Sheraton Seattle, and the Westin Seattle. Blocks of guest rooms hav...

For the first time, the AHA conference city is Seattle, on Puget Sound in Washington State. You are fortunate that Seattle has embraced espresso, for it can fortify you in this land of cool rain and c...

I am writing to clarify several statements made in your September article concerning the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's (HSP) decision to become the best special collection library in the nation...

Editor's Note: We are publishing this lecture (delivered at the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute in April 1996) as part of our series of occasional essays on and by eminent practitioners in the field wh...

How will historians communicate the new knowledge they create? How will the primary source materials to which they seek access (visual, textual, statistical) be presented and controlled? How will stud...

Nearly sixty years ago, when Americans were standing in lines to see Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious historical societies declared a...