NEH Update With the new Republican leadership targeting the endowments for sharp cuts, efforts to secure reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and adequate funding in fisc...

Littleton-Griswold Research Grants Felicia A. Kornbluh (Princeton Univ.)Daniel J. Hulsebosch (Harvard Univ.)Jo Ann Woodsum (Darmouth Coll.)Matthew E. Babcock (Yale Univ.)Andrew Wender Cohen (Univ. of ...

The editors of Perspectives are pleased to announce that Edward T. Linenthal of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and Clara Sue Kidwell of the University of Oklahoma have agreed to serve as contr...

Most of us are probably familiar with the television commercial that appears after major professional sporting triumphs, whether Super Bowl or figure skating: "Now that you have been named Most Valuab...

Five years ago my colleagues and I in the history department at Western Michigan University set out to develop a new doctoral program, never anticipating that our course of study would eventually be d...

Every academic year, in November and March, members of the AHA Program Committee meet in Washington, D.C., to evaluate some 250 proposals and to determine which 140 will appear on the program of the n...

Michael Grossberg arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, in mid-August to take over the editorship of the American Historical Review and to begin his tenure as a professor in the history department at India...

Although recent political changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are unique, global patterns of privatization and reduced government budgets, along with the resurgence of democratic gov...

The House After debate that spread over five days, the House approved a fiscal 1996 Interior Appropriations Bill (H.R. 1977). The bill includes appropriations for the cultural agencies as shown in Tab...

Deputy Executive Director James B. Gardner has been awarded a sabbatical, which began August 1, 1995. Gardner's leave is the first awarded to a member of the American Historical Association staff as a...