Editor's Note: Gary Nash, the director of the National Center for History in the Schools, sent the following letter to organizations that critiqued the history standards. Dear Colleague, On October 11...

In an address to National Archives staff on August 24, John W. Carlin, Archivist of the United States, announced the initiation of a campaign to reshape the National Archives and Records Administratio...

Editor's Note: Because of space limitations we were not able to publish in the November issue of Perspectives all of the obituaries we received. In the future, this column will run in November, Februa...

The American Historical Association now has a home page on the World Wide Web. Sponsored by the Center for History in the Media at George Mason University (http://web.gmu.edu/chnm), it is accessible u...

This column could be regarded as a continuation of last month's brief exploration of the endangered monograph. As scholarly communication expands to embrace electronic as well as print forms, scholars...

I have been attending the meetings of the International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS, or CISH in the French version, Congres International des Sciences Historiques) at five year intervals for...

The "history of the book" may be the newest field of study in the historical profession. Long the province of librarians and bibliographers, it first excited broad interest among American historians a...

Editors Note: Rena Cheskis-Gold wrote the following article at the request if the Family Care Task Force of the AHA Professional Division. She includes here a description of the basic components, topi...

Submitting a Manuscript Know your journal. Acquaint yourself with the scope and limits of a journal's subject field before you submit your manuscript. Consult the submission procedures outlined in th...

Editor’s Note: Because of space limitations we are not able to publish in this issue of Perspectives all of the obituaries that we have received. We will publish the remainder in the December or Janua...