Editor's Note: At its spring 1991 meeting, the AHA's Teaching Division endorsed the following statement on teaching the Columbian encounter developed by the National Council for the Social Studies thi...

William M. Armstrong William M. Armstrong, professor emeritus, Clarkson University, died on February 25, 1991. Dr. Armstrong received his A.B. degree in history from Bradley University in 1947, his A....

In a four-page Program sent to all 622 AHA members, the indefatigable AHA Secretary Herbert Baxter Adams "respectfully invited" them to attend the Eighth Annual Meeting, December 29–31, 1891, in the c...

Public Hearing to Be Held at AHA Annual Meeting Over the next six months, the Association will participate in the development of a conceptual framework for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational ...

A surprising thing happened at the American Historical Association annual meeting in San Francisco, December 1989. A session scheduled for the last hour on the last day of the meeting, and announced o...

The AHA Membership Committee, recognizing that our long-term members are the backbone of the Association, has asked Perspectives to publish a list of names of those achieving that milestone of fidelit...

The WHA announces that its activities were recently expanded by the establishment of new regional affiliates in California, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, and the Rocky Mountain area. Through its Rocky Mountai...

Dear Editor, Norman Cantor's letter in the May/June 1991 Perspectives reflects such a distorted understanding of university publishing that one hardly knows where to begin to respond. Professor Cantor...

The end of summer found the Washington headquarters staff wrapping up its summer tasks and preparing for a busy fall season of meetings. The final version of the 1991 annual meeting Program was sent o...

The current gay rights movement in America began in June 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village fought back after repeated police harassment (the terms "gay" and "homosexual" des...