Most historians who participate in online discussions about history do so through the H-Net listservs, but an alternative forum exists in the shape of Usenet newsgroups. Usenet is a collection of thou...

A funny thing happened on the way to writing this article. We decided to start with some history and some definitions and began to assemble this material from traditional sources—the dozens of manuals...

The 110th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held January 4 through 7 in Atlanta, continued a recent string of highly successful and exceptionally well-attended meetings—in spite o...

In 1994–95, I spent a sabbatical year at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. I had never lived in Germany for an extended time before, and my spoken German was awkward. The public culture in Germany is...

The major accomplishment of the Professional Division in 1995 has been the revision of its policies and procedures for evaluating complaints about standards of professional conduct. When I became vice...

One of the great occasions of my professional life took place in the mid‑1980s, when for the first time I attended and presented a paper at a major American historical conference. At last I, an Irishm...

In last month's Director's Desk column, I pointed out some of the essential services the AHA provides to the field through its conduct of the annual meeting. That analysis is part of a larger effort t...

One of the most exciting areas within the emerging field of multimedia computer-assisted education is the family of computer products grouped under the rubric of presentation software. These packages ...

Robert Brent Toplin is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he teaches courses on American history, film and history, and Latin American history. Toplin, who r...

The New York Documentary Heritage Program has awarded a 1995-96 Historical Records Program Project Grant to the Tamiment Institute Library and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York Universit...