Editor's note: In this month's Film and Media column historians review two completely different approaches to the Civil War era on film. Both productions are landmarks in reexamining the war from the ...

Dear Editor, As one who is professionally involved in both history and law, I would like to add a few supplementary words to Professor M. Les Benedict's comprehensive and accurate review of the danger...

Federalists and Antifederalists from around the nation debate the worth of the proposed United States Constitution and the meaning of the American Revolution in a Philadelphia tavern in 1787. An awake...

Dear Editor, Roy Rosenzweig's provocative essay, "An Old Complaint Rekindled: Why Do We Read Papers at Historical Conventions?" (Viewpoints, p.20, May/June 1990 Perspectives) concentrated on presenter...

The 1991 annual meeting of the Association will be held in Chicago, December 27–30. The Program Committee welcomes proposals by all members of the Association, by scholars in related disciplines, and ...

Editor's note: In this month's Film and Media column historians review two completely different approaches to the Civil War era on film. Both productions are landmarks in reexamining the war from the ...

The History Teaching Alliance has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant of $225,000. Only forty-one Challenge Grants were awarded nationally by the NEH in this past gran...

The first issue of the 1990–91 academic year, like all September editions of this column, is a time for playing catch-up ball. Because of the preponderance of academic historians among our membership,...

The recipient of the thirteenth annual J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is Dr. Michael A. Morrison, Indiana University at Indianapolis. The fellowship is cosponsored annually by the ...

At its spring meeting, the Association's Research Division selected twenty-five AHA members to receive grants for further research in the history of the Western hemisphere. Previously, Beveridge grant...