The AHA’s Committee on Women Historians has launched a new web page on the AHA’s web site to provide useful information on issues relating to women historians, gender equity, and so on. Gender equity ...

The story is told that some weeks after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Ernest Hemingway and a friend sat in a hotel bar in Havana when Fidel Castro arrived with an entourage of staff and securit...

The American Historical Association has established two awards to be given annually to institutions and individuals who help to reach the goals set out in the AHA’s 1996 statement on equity, which ack...

Under the rubric “Masters at the Movies,” this column features a variety of articles about film crafted by some of the most accomplished teachers and scholars in the profession. Most of the authors ar...

In the January 2009 issue of Perspectives on History, Nancy Shoemaker asks where the history lab course is.1 There’s one at the high school where I teach and it’s called “Advanced Seminar in Historica...

The Program of the AHA’s 124th annual meeting (scheduled to be held January 7–10, 2010, in San Diego) will soon be on its way to members, who are urged to finalize their plans to attend and make the n...

Whereas, The American Historical Association has already gone on record against the threat to academic freedom posed by the Academic Bill of Rights; Whereas, Free and open discourse is essential to th...

To the Editor: AHA’s president (Perspectives on History, May 2009), and Wikipedia, are surely wrong about the meaning of “cc”. Plurals of abbreviations used to be formed by duplication. Some of these ...

Editor’s Note: The purpose of this column, which is published in Perspectives on History as space permits, is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of AHA members. Submissions are welcome; entrie...

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., one of the most renowned and influential historians and intellectuals of the 20th century, died February 28, 2007, after a heart attack suffered in a Manhattan restaurant wh...