John F. Benton John F. Benton, noted California Institute of Technology medieval historian, recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, and holder of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, died February...

Sharon K. Tune, formerly AHA administrative and editorial assistant, was promoted to executive assistant and convention manager, September 1, 1988. She succeeds Eileen Gaylard, who retired from that p...

Women's history has made vast advances in the past twenty years. Where we are going with these advances, however, is less certain and where we should be going is something we might do well to consider...

I was introduced to this field one evening in March 1964, when I received a telephone call from a colleague in the Disaster Research Center at my university—Ohio State. He asked me if I would like to ...

Although historians urge the close, critical reading of documents in their own work and in the classroom, they rarely treat the textbooks, paperbacks, and articles they assign and review in the classr...

From the March 1980 issue of the AHA Newsletter

From the November 1971 issue of the AHA Newsletter

From the June 1970 issue of the AHA Newsletter

The Annual Business Meeting of the Association was called to order by President C. Vann Woodward at 8:40 p.m. on December 28, 1969, in the Sheraton Hall of the Sheraton-Park hotel in Washington, D. C....