Caroline Jean Acker, Carnegie Mellon Univ., has been awarded the first DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellowship in the history of 20th-century biomedical science and/or technology at the Stetten Museu...

Teaching Division The AHA's Teaching Division convened in Washington on March 19. The meeting's agenda covered a wide range of issues and activities, but of special note were developments in regard to...

What is the issue in the May 1993 dispute between the Library of Congress and several justices of the United States Supreme Court over the library's swift opening of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall...

"Lost Generation" Knows No Gender To the Editor: In her recent discussion of "The Academic Marketplace and Affirmative Action" (Perspectives, December 1993, page 7), historian Nell Irvin Painter sugge...

The AHA's Professional Division has acted on twelve formal complaints and eight informal complaints or inquiries since the publication of its last report a year ago (Perspectives, May/June 1993, page ...

In cooperation with the National Park Service, the Newberry Library is undertaking a theme study in American labor history. The purpose of this study is to generate National Historic Landmark nominati...

Selection of U.S. Archivist There is still no word from the Office of White House Personnel on the appointment of a U.S. archivist. However, Robert Hardesty, a consultant for the Lyndon Baines Johnson...

David Levering Lewis, who holds the Martin Luther King, Jr., chair in history at Rutgers University, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race. The much-prai...

Although critics regularly complain about the irrelevance of academic research or the isolating jargon of humanists and social scientists, university-based historians are, in fact, taking a greater in...

President's FY'95 Budget Request for History- Related Federal Programs The Clinton administration requested $200.898 million for the National Archives for FY'95, which is almost a $5 million increase ...