Editor's Note: Portions of this article were published in "On Learner-Centered Teaching," History Teacher, vol. 15, no. 2, February 1982, and appear in Perspectives courtesy of the Society for History...

In May 1890, the Press Exploring Expedition, the first party to complete a north-south transverse across the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, was nearing the end of its hazardous six-month journey. Ha...

During the summer of 1990, a group of scholars debated a range of historical issues including the origins of agriculture, warfare, and walled cities. Members of this group also sought information abou...

The end of each calendar year for the last 102 years has seen the American Historical Association convened in its annual meeting, and December 27–30, 1990, found over 3900 members and other historians...

On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 1990 election for AHA offices. (Elected candidates are indicated with an asterisk.) Total Ballots Processed 3,693 Presi...

Editor's Note: The editor wishes to express his gratitude to Carol Pixton of Poly Prep Country Day School, Brooklyn, NY, and a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University by acknowledging her constructive ...

After hitting a low point in 1984–85, the number of new PhDs in history increased for the next three consecutive years, averaging a 3.5 percent annual rate of growth and ending twelve years of decline...

Members will be relieved to note that Perspectives is not its usually weighty self this month. Editorially, January is always the "month after"—too early for a report on the December annual meeting in...

Let me begin by giving an affirmative answer to the question posed in the title of this essay—parachutists and truffle-hunters can find perfect happiness together, although at the moment they are not ...

Session Cancellation Session 119, Roundtable: Electoral Sociology During the French Revolution, has been cancelled. The session was to have met in the Hilton, Regent Parlor, Sunday, December 30, 1 p.m...