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 ...

In the November 1992 issue of Perspectives, James R. Lehning challenged the notion held by critics of history education that American students are ignorant of their own and the world's history. His co...

To the Editor: If the attitude toward copyright reflected in Sam Bass Warner's essay (Perspectives, December 1993) is widely shared in the historical profession, then scholarly publishing is in a lot ...

Ted Bogacz United States Naval Academy history professor Ted Bogacz died suddenly due to complications from surgery on September 18, 1992, at the age of forty-nine, in Annapolis, Maryland. A native of...

No matter where a history survey course begins, students seldom have enough background to understand the first unit in its historical context. This can present a formidable challenge to teachers of "m...

Over the past seven years, the Department of History of the University of Florida (UF) has been educating itself about the role of minorities in the historical profession. What began in the mid-1980s ...

The Nominating Committee for 1994–95, chaired by Jere Bacharach, University of Washington, met in Washington, D.C., on February 10–12, and offers the following candidates for offices of the Associatio...

To the Editor: In her article, "The Academic Marketplace and Affirmative Action," Professor Nell Irvin Painter (Perspectives, December 1993) misuses data, misrepresents facts, and makes scurrilous ass...

Until the last quarter of the twentieth century the technologies used for delivering information were relatively static. Paper, bound in monographic or serial volumes, conveyed the printed word. Until...