In a January column in this space, I spoke of the benefits of the Presidential and Federal Records Reform Act (Public Law 113-187)1, which the president signed into law in December 2014. As noted, th...

The AHA is pleased to announce the recipients of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History and the Fellowship in Aerospace History. The J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History ...

Public Historian; Historian of Science, Technology, and Government; AHA Member since 1947 Richard (“Dick”) Hewlett devoted his career to shining light into the darkness. As the first historian of the ...

Over the past few months, I have been re-reading a remarkable little book, The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century.1 Produced as the report of the AHA's Committee on Graduate Educatio...

Photo courtesy of Denis Heyck Historian of Modern Britain Thomas William Heyck wrote about intellectual over-specialization, but he did not practice it. A professor of modern British history at Nor...

From the Supplement to the 119th Annual Meeting

Key figure in 1956 Hungarian Revolution, military historian, politician Béla Király died on July 4, 2009, at the age of 97. He lived long enough to have had three fruitful careers—military leader, his...

Inside the Meeting: Behind the Scenes with the Hourly Workers For 96 hours from January 2 to 5 this year, more than 80 student workers in neon-orange T-shirts from programs around the Northeast ensur...

Editor's Note: Perspectives on History welcomes letters to the editor on issues discussed in its pages or which are relevant to the profession. Letters should ideally be brief and should be e-mailed (...

NARA Issues Final Rule on New Hours After soliciting public comment on proposed changes in the hours of operation for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) research and museum facili...