Whereas, the strength of our nation and the quality of our civic life is rooted in the arts and humanities, which provide a deeper understanding of .life and of society; and Whereas, the National Endo...

As the accompanying tables indicate, data from the annual survey conducted by the National Research Council (NRC) charts another year of growth in the number of new Ph.D.'s awarded in history. While t...

Copyright and "Fair Use" in the Electronic Environment A series of hearings and conferences have followed the release last July by Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown of the report Intellectual Properly a...

Editor's Note: The imperative that historians begin to bridge the gap between their scholarly research and the needs and interests of the American public(s) was often repeated at the annual meeting. T...

1994 Awards for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year a committee composed of former AHA presi...

Thoughtful people know that election soundbites and bumper stickers are not substitutes for reasoned debate about how we should allocate limited resources. As elected officials move from electioneerin...

Continuing the focus from last month's column, we have included in this issue two related articles on the implications of cuts in federal funding support for research in the humanities and social scie...

Growing interest in and debate about multiculturalism in the undergraduate curriculum has recently inspired college and university faculty to discuss ways they might move beyond the "Western civilizat...

Plans of House Republican Transition Team Threaten the House Office of the Historian On December 1 the House Republican Transition Team headed by Representative Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) announced a major r...

I read with interest the exchange between Ronald Takaki, George Fredrickson, and Robert Fullinwider in the October issue of Perspectives. For people concerned with making the teaching of American hist...