The 1994 annual meeting will be held at the San Francisco Hilton and Parc Fifty Five hotels with overflow accommodations at the Hotel Nikko and Westin St. Francis Hotel.

As the accompanying article and tables indicate, data from the annual survey conducted by the National Research Council (NRC) chart another year of growth in the number of new PhDs awarded in history.

(Adopted May 1986; amended May 1990 and May 1993) I. Identifying Plagiarism and Other Misuses The word plagiarism derives from Latin roots: plagiarius, an abductor. and plagiare, to steal. The expropr...

In the past decade, the AHA has assumed a responsibility it had not customarily exercised during the first century of its existence. Although it was chartered by Congress in 1889 to act "in the intere...

Studies released earlier this year by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the College and University Personnel Association (CUPA) indicate little or no growth in faculty salar...

As part of the AHA Professional Division's survey of the current employment situation, I examined aspects of the situation we find ourselves in as professors and teachers of history to undergraduates ...

At its regular May meeting, the governing Council of the Association unanimously approved a proposal to amend the 1974 constitution of the AHA. Under the provisions of Article X, the Council or the an...

The 108th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in San Francisco at the San Francisco Hilton and the Parc Fifty Five hotels. Over 725 scholars, including seventy-seven fro...

Charles Albro Barker Charles Albro Barker, an authority on American intellectual history, died in Santa Barbara on September 12, 1993, at the age of 88 from heart failure. Dr. Barker received a doctor...

"The subject is so politically and emotionally charged," lamented one student in an anonymous course evaluation, "that I yearn for objectivity, distance, and a little more freedom to discuss ideas on ...