Library of Congress Institutes New Regulations and Hours As a result of increased security concerns, the Library of Congress has closed the stacks to all researchers and to many of its staff. The NCC ...

The 107th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., and headquartered at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. Hotel reservation information is on page 9 of this issue of Perspectives. The Program of ...

Dear Editor: I read with interest both E.L. Rountree's complaint of discriminatory job advertising and the Professional Division's response in the May/June issue. With all due respect, I would suggest...

The AHA's Ad Hoc Committee on History and Film drafted the guidelines below to stimulate discussion regarding the professional rights and responsibilities of historians involved in media projects. The...

State Department Appoints New Advisory Council One of the key provisions in P.L. 102-138, the State Department Authorization Act of 1992 and 1993, is the establishment of an Advisory Committee on Hist...

At its spring meeting, the Association's Research Division selected thirty AHA members to receive grants for further research in the history of the Western hemisphere. Beveridge grants are offered for...

Dear Editor: In the October 1991 Perspectives, a job listing closed with these statements: "The University of ________________ is building a multicultural faculty and strongly encourages applications ...

Dear Editor: The sober analysis by AHA Deputy Executive Director James B. Gardner of the decline of faculty salaries in 1990–91, published in the November 1991 Perspectives (p. 1–3, 4), is important a...

The Council of the Association is scheduled to meet in Washington in early May, bringing to a close the major standing committee and governing body meetings of the 1991–92 fiscal year of the Associati...

Editor's Note: For more information on electronic mail, see “Electronic Mail and Historians” by Donald Mabry (Perspectives, February 1991), and Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1...