For history graduate students facing the classroom for the first time as instructors, the challenges of teaching may seem unfamiliar and isolating. Many get frustrated when students do not understand ...

The AHA Professional Division (PD) boasts a broad mission: to promote integrity, fairness, and civility in the practice of history; to articulate ethical standards and best practices in the profession...

Perspectives readers have already read my pitch for a set of live-tweeting guidelines, and I recently put forth the proposal to AHA Today readers. I asked our readers to help develop a working draft o...

During this period of great turmoil for higher education, when the "usefulness" of liberal arts education is under assault, supporters of the humanities and the liberal arts must actively and creative...

The March issue of Perspectives listed the Association's committee structure for 2013. The following appointments complete outstanding openings and indicate replacements of committee members who have ...

The biggest problem now facing the history discipline is the job crisis. In 2011, Anthony T. Grafton, then president of the AHA, and James Grossman, executive director, published "No More Plan B: A Ve...

Could Have Adverse Implications for Job Market During the 2010–11 academic year, the number of undergraduate students earning degrees in history dropped—albeit by a small percentage—for the first time...

In the half century since the publication of E. H. Carr's famous polemic, the historical profession has done an admirable job of answering the question "What is History?" Confirming Carr's argument th...

Nobody will ever get rich winning an AHA prize. We wish it were otherwise, and if anyone reading this article is hereby motivated to write a substantial check for a prize in any aspect of historical w...

A few months ago, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, the director of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association, explained that she was backing away from Twitter because of the negative "shame cult...