House Defeats by Large Majority Amendment to Eliminate NEH Funding On July 15 the House resoundingly defeated an amendment to eliminate funding in fiscal 1998 for the National Endowment for the Humani...

Editor's note: The following statement, first adopted in May 1989 was revised by the AHA's Professional Division and approved by the Association's Council at its June 7-8, 1997, meeting. The statement...

Historian John Hope Franklin, former president of the AHA, will chair a commission to conduct a national conversation on the racial divide. The seven-member President's Commission on Race is charged w...

Tenure, tenure requirements, and gender discrimination were brought into focus this past spring, when a board of Stanford University deans rejected tenure for Karen Sawislak, an assistant professor in...

The 1997 annual meeting attracted record crowds (4,500) to the New York City site. The large attendance contributed to 18 of the 154 numbered sessions reporting standing room only. The Program Committ...

Declassification at the National Archives and Records Administration I read with interest the article by Warren Kimball on declassification, and the various responses from readers of Perspectives (Feb...

Anthony A. Iaccarino, a graduate student, was on the right track when he pointed out the need for graduate training to take into account broader job possibilities for graduates of American history Ph....

Editor's Note: The Program Committee for the 1997 and 1998 annual meetings provided scholars proposing panels and papers with a very helpful essay by Patrick Manning entitled "Preparing Your Proposal....

Conservative journals and lawmakers tried to open a new front in the attack on history with a renewed charge that the Smithsonian Institution is "falling prisoner to politically correct interpretation...

When the national history standards for United States and world history were published in the fall of 1994, none of the thirty-some professional groups that had contributed to their preparation-the AH...