From 16th-century Morocco to 1970s Congo, from 1800s Virginia to 1940s Palestine, these seven novels published in the last twelve months offer rich worlds where history and fiction intersect. The his...

The AHA film festival has become an important part of the annual meetings in facilitating lively debate about the significance of films for studying the past. The eighth film festival will be held at ...

To the Editor: A few issues ago, I had a letter printed in Perspectives on History (April 2014). I pointed out that the American Historical Association focused mainly on college professors and other ...

Economic Historian and Scholar of 17th-Century Europe Domenico Sella, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, March 8, 2012. He was born 16 Nov...

Preregistration The preregistration form for the 121st annual meeting to be held January 4–7, 2007, in Atlanta was in the September and October Perspectives and was also included in the meeting Progra...

Lance Banning, one of the leading interpreters of America's founding generation, died January 31, 2006, at age 64, after complications from lung surgery. A professor of history at the University of Ke...

On a sunny Friday in October, the Museum of the City of New York is buzzing. The hum of activity is interrupted occasionally by the crashing sounds of construction. Parts of the building—a handsome Ge...

You will surely eat better in Denver than the gold-rushers Horace Greeley encountered in June 1859. Their diet, Greeley reported in An Overland Journey (1860), was bacon, beans, and bread. Happily, eg...

Many graduate students seem surprised when a significant percentage of the available jobs are not at research universities but at small colleges. Their academic training is at a large research univers...

I listened intently to President Obama’s speech in Buffalo last week. The president’s assessment of the state of higher education and his proposals for addressing its failings directly shape my work a...