After countless hours of labor, I have concluded that it appears almost foolhardy to try to cram all of Latin America into a world history course. The term Latin America is itself a misnomer: the area...

Editor's Note: The AHA has paid a total of $165,682.90 (including a small amount in legal fees) to settle damage claims made by five Cincinnati hotels after the Association cancelled plans to hold its...

The 1995 AHA Program Committee was most pleased with the high quality of proposals that we received and with the enthusiastic cooperation of our colleagues both in the United States and abroad. Althou...

Since the publication of its last report in the May/June 1994 issue of Perspectives, the AHA's Professional Division has acted on two formal complaints and fifteen informal complaints or inquiries. Tw...

In 1986 the National Education Association (NEA) adopted a policy resolution stating that part-time faculty should be employed only when an educational program requires specialized training or experti...

In the four years since Don Mabry's exciting article about the internationalization of on-line discussions among historians appeared in Perspectives, the world of global cyberspace scholarship has gro...

Listed below are the National Archives record groups that will be moving between June and December 1995. Records are also moving within the downtown Washington National Archives building. Those moves ...

The 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences will be held August 27 through September 3, 1995, in Montreal. The congress meets only once every five years, and this is only the second time in...

Appropriations Hearings on the National Archives and National Historical Publications and Records Commission On March 21 Ira Berlin, professor of history at the University of Maryland and founder and ...

The first deadline for proposals for panels for the 1997 AHA annual meeting, which will be in New York City, is October 27, 1995. The theme for the meeting will be "Human Rights"; panels need not fit ...