On February 4, Rosa Parks’s birthday, the Library of Congress opened to researchers the newest addition to its collection of materials on the civil rights icon: approximately 10,000 personal papers a...

The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative continues to increase its presence at the Association’s annual meeting; this year it was complemented by an unprecedented number of sessions organ...

When historian Renee Romano decided to research marriages between black and white Americans for her dissertation in 1993, her adviser asked her whether she thought she would find enough sources. She ...

In my everyday work at the AHA, I often make arguments for the usefulness of historical training and habits of mind. But it is quite unusual for me to climb Capitol Hill and advocate in the vaulted h...

On March 6 and 7, 2015, the history department at Columbia University hosted a conference, History in Action: Historical Thinking in Public Life. The program is online, at http://historyinaction.colu...

In the October 2012 issue of Perspectives on History, in the run-up to the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, distinguished women’s historian Linda Kerber offered historians a challenge. Lamenting the ...

Credit: Bob Weidner Most faculty members have heard cynical parents making arguments like, “My kid should go for a straight business degree. I am not paying for this fun stuff, like history. He nee...

At the end of February, the University of New Mexico history department hosted the first regional conference under the AHA’s Mellon-funded Career Diversity for Historians initiative. The panel brough...

On July 18 of this year, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. His tour of El Reno Federal Correctional Institute, outside of Oklahoma City, which included a meeti...

For many of us, the quest for balance in our professional and personal lives seems as elusive as the Holy Grail or even a good night’s sleep. In 1982, I arrived at my first academic position at the ...