Editor's note: The following essay and the response (which begins on page 26) were submitted by Ray Browne, secretary-treasurer of the Popular Culture Association. We are pleased to offer them as part...

Harriet Hyman Alonso (Fitchburg State Coll.) has been awarded the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize by the Eugene V. Debs Foundation for her article, "Nobel Peace Laureates, Jane Addams and Emily Greene Bal...

Graduate Student Unions: Further Considerations To the Editor: Should Graduate Student Academic Employees (GSAEs) become unionized? In the January 1997 issue of Perspectives, Gregory Beyrer argued in ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of a series about practicing history in a global context that will appear in Perspectives in the coming months. "The future is certain," goes the old Soviet joke, "...

There has recently been a rash of worrying stories about public libraries hurtling headlong into the digital age, casting books, collections, and card catalogs into oblivion in their injudicious and i...

The advocates of tenure emphasize its contributions to professional excellence and the social quest for truth. These common benefits are deemed more important than the benefits to individuals with ten...

Update on President Clinton's Fiscal 1998 Request for Cultural Agencies The president has requested $136 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a $26 million increase over its current ...

Benjamin A. Quarles Benjamin A. Quarles, one of the most distinguished historians of the black experience in the United States, died on November 16, 1996, at the age of 92. Quarles, who was born in Bo...

I understand "totalitarianism" not as a defined category of political analysis, but as a term that suggests a whole series of political questions, focusing on the nature of freedom, justice, and coerc...

Bringing scholarship and teaching together is an ideal, I should think, that most historians would subscribe to. But how might the ideal translate into practice? We sometimes try to achieve the ideal ...