In recent years, the Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities has supported several major projects to enhance the preparation of future schoolteachers in undergradua...

Homer Calkin is the recipient of the second Distinguished Service Award from the United Methodist Church's General Commission on Archives and History. Ronald D. Cassell, Univ. of North Carolina, Green...

I was very puzzled by the Editor's Note and the AHA statements that were placed at the beginning of Joan Scott's "The New University: Beyond Political Correctness" (October 1992, p. 14). If you decide...

Anecdotal evidence of the recession-linked tightening of the job market for historians can now be substantiated by hard data. The number of openings listed in the September and October issues of Persp...

"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession," wrote Thomas Carlyle, "a possession entirely our own. A greater vividness and permanency of impression is secured, and facts thus acquired become r...

Dear Editor: I respond reluctantly to Henry Clark's recent criticism of Stanford's CIV program (Perspectives, May/June 1992) because it makes patently false statements about the history course that I ...

Dear Editor: Richard White's otherwise trenchant essay on the treatment of the West in U.S. history (Perspectives, September 1992, p. 1), replicates one of the most disquieting faults of the textbooks...

FY'93 Appropriations Eager to adjourn and return home for a last round of campaigning before election day, Congress passed thirteen appropriations bills during the first week of October. The Treasury,...

The last decade has witnessed a national debate over the teaching of history in American high schools and colleges. Public figures such as Lynne Cheney and Diane Ravitch1 have criticized the recent te...

A report recently released by the Historical Documents Study urges historians to accept a larger share of responsibility for the historical record and work closely with professionals concerned with pr...