Society of American Historians Honors Four The Society of American Historians awarded four prizes to historians at its annual dinner on May 12, 1994, at the Union League Club, in New York City. It awa...

The American Historical Association and the history department at Indiana University in Bloomington are jointly searching for a scholar whose responsibilities will be divided between editing the Ameri...

Council Meeting, May 8–9 The Council convened for its spring meeting in Washington on May 8–9. A top priority was review of developments subsequent to the Association's decision in January to move the...

Editor's Note: The AHA Council welcomes comments from members on the following policy statement (adopted January 6, 1994) and implementation guidelines (adopted May 9, 1994) regarding the location of ...

Senate Confirms Clinton Nominees for NEH Advisory Council After months of delay, President Bill Clinton finally announced on June 17 ten nominees for the National Council on the Humanities, a twenty-s...

The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology is sponsoring a workshop on experimental ways of writing about the past. This workshop is not limited to na...

Over a generation ago, Rupert Costo, a Cahuilla Indian elder and advocate of American Indian rights since the 1930s, inspired me and other Native American historians with these words: In the past, Ind...

The 1994 Program Committee saw as its task the shaping of a program representative of the breadth and depth of the work of the historical profession as a whole. We sought to promote excellence in rese...

To the Editor: In May 1993, I and one-half the AHA membership received a mailing from the "Institute for Historical Review" (IHR), an anti-Semitic group specializing in denying the Holocaust, which yo...

Within the context of the site selection policy adopted in January (see page 17), the AHA Council at its May meeting reviewed its decision to hold the 1996 annual meeting in Atlanta. The specific conc...