Spring in Washington for the Association headquarters staff brings a rising crescendo of committee meetings and activities, preparing for them, and carrying out their decisions afterwards. Face to fac...

Pamela J. Bennett, formerly director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, was elected president of the American Association for State and Local History. The Concordia Historical Institute presented its D...

What can a teacher do with the buzzing, blooming confusion that is world history? The problem is two-fold. On the one hand, the subject is infinite. On the other hand, considerable attention must be p...

Twenty years ago, an ad hoc committee of the AHA, chaired by Professor Willie Lee Rose, issued its first report on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession. The AHA established this committee ...

The New England Foundation for the Humanities has produced a videotape of playwright Jack Carroll's The Other Boston Tea Party, an original drama set in Boston in 1788. Over tea, the brash young state...

In the past few decades, there has been a concerted effort by American universities to offer courses in non-Western history. This effort is part of a larger perspective made more pressing as a result ...

Editors' Note: The conference reported on below was particularly significant, for it brought together, for the first time, key urban history museum professionals to discuss their common interests and ...

The new Membership Committee of the Association would like to hear from members who have suggestions for stimulating the growth of the AHA and providing improved services to members. Appointed just ov...

Dear Editor, I am surprised that the director of the University of Texas Press, John H. Kyle, questions (Perspectives, "Letters," May/June 1990) the veracity of my article in Perspectives ("Scholars a...

Awards for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established an award entitled the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year the Nominating Committee re...