The 124th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 7–10, 2010, in San Diego, California. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all members of the Association ...

For more than a decade, many historians have been caught up in a rising tide of interest in the connections between big business and National Socialism. A good deal of this interest may be traced back...

Four years ago, when I accepted a position as dean of humanities at UCLA, I was contacted by an interviewer for the student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, who immediately challenged me by asking me to re...

Federal Court Orders Vice President to Preserve Records On September 20, 2008, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the office of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve all records ...

Recently, Atlantic history has reshaped the way historians of the United States and the world have approached their research and teaching. Naturally, the Caribbean world is part of that construct sinc...

Editor’s Note: The following essay is an expanded version of an article (“Historians’ Rocky Job Market”) that was published in the Chronicle Review section of the Chronicle of Higher Education of July...

Blogging, the use of the internet to post commentary or links, has taken off among historians, both in the academy and beyond. For example, History News Network has a group blog of historians, and his...

The Historians Film Committee presented—with the Center for the Study of Film and History—a panel entitled "Wars of the Worlds: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond: Science in Film, Television, and Hi...

Gerald R. Gill died of a heart attack in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 26, 2007. A scholar of 20th-century African American history, Gerald Gill was Tufts University's most honored and...

Council Gabrielle M. Spiegel (Johns Hopkins Univ.), president; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Harvard Univ.), president-elect; Barbara Weinstein (NYU), past president; David Weber (Southern Methodist Univ.),...