Representatives of twenty-two organizations and projects convened in Washington on September 21 for the fourth in a series of meetings to promote coordination and collaboration in support of precolleg...

Nathan Irvin Huggins, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, died on December 5, 1989, at the age of 62. Born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco, Dr...

Priscilla Smith Robertson, 79, a respected historical scholar and lecturer, died on November 23, 1989. Born in Paris, France in 1910, Ms. Robertson received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1930. Her r...

C. David Tompkins, 52, professor and former chairman (1971-77) of the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University, died on January 3. Born in Battle Creek, MI, in 1939, Dr. Tompkins rece...

Giovanni Costigan, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle, died on March 24. He was 85. Dr. Costigan was a member of the faculty at the University of ...

The University of Connecticut Department of History has successfully concluded a campaign to raise one million dollars to endow the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History. The Noether ...

In studies published in late spring, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the College and University Personnel Association (CUPA) sharply disagree about the current status of f...

David R. Armitage, Princeton University, has been awarded a Research Fellowship from the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. John Barnard, Oakland University, received a Rockefeller Resident ...

Believing that teachers are the key to improved history education and that professional barriers separating precollegiate and postsecondary teachers impoverish both, the History Teaching Alliance orga...

Prosopography or collective biography has been described by Lawrence Stone, among others, as ideally suited to introducing students to historical research. In a recent seminar I taught students to use...