Two and a half years ago, AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman and then-AHA president Anthony Grafton issued a challenge to the historical profession in an essay titled “No More Plan B: A Very Modest P...

Inscribed at the entrance to the Harry S. Truman presidential library is this declaration by Truman: “The papers of the Presidents are among the most valuable sources of material for history. They oug...

Hollywood has not done well by historians of the revolutionary era—and yes, I speak of The Patriot. In that 2000 film, the British sank to such depths of evil that they herded dozens of innocent Amer...

From the Viewpoints column in Perspectives on History. The US National Archives are in serious trouble, according to a recent survey, with grave implications for democratic governance and timely hist...

Last year I taught one of the world’s first history MOOCs to over 93,000 students globally and another 60 students at Princeton, and shared some early thoughts of that inaugural experience in Perspect...

A common theme emerged at the meetings and events sponsored by AHA committees at the 2014 annual meeting. Members expressed a desire for guidance and advice on navigating the many twists and turns of ...

What’s working at history museums, and what work are historians doing there? Those questions took center stage at two sessions sponsored by the AHA’s Professional and Research divisions and held at th...

The notion of making courses available to people to watch at their leisure is not a new idea: this has been done on television and in the “Open University” forms going back 40 years. The UK was a pion...

Perspectives on History authors have a variety of interests and come from a range of professions, but they all share an astounding generosity. We do not pay them for their work (as much as we’d like t...

Like so many people today who want to disrupt higher education, Frederick W. Taylor, an early management consultant, fashioned himself as a reformer. He wanted to change the American workplace in orde...