Council for the International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright Awards, 1989–90 American History Elaine G. Breslaw, chair, history/geography, Morgan State University Joan L. Bromberg, dir. Laser Hist. Pr...

Despite its obvious connection to teaching and scholarship, American academicians have remained blissfully ignorant of our copyright law. Most know little more than the fact that authors have some rig...

Nathan I. Huggins, one of the leading scholars in the field of African-American studies, died December 5, 1989 at the age of sixty-two. Born in Chicago, Huggins was raised in the San Francisco Bay are...

John L. Clive, professor of history at Harvard University and winner of the National Book Award, died January 7, 1990 at the age of sixty-five. Clive won the National Book Award in 1974 for his biogra...

Gerald T. White, noted historian of U.S. business and economic history, died on December 15, 1989 in Laguna Hills, CA at the age of seventy-seven. After leaving his boyhood home in Seattle, White grad...

William Appleman Williams, noted historian of American foreign policy, died March 5, 1990 at the age of sixty-eight. Williams was best known for his sharp criticism of American foreign policy and is c...

In commemoration of National Women's History Month, the Women's National History Project has created a poster, "Courageous Voices Echoing in Our Lives." The poster features eleven women who took posit...

Editor's Note: The following report was submitted by Elizabeth A. R. Brown in her capacity as the AHA's appointee on the Advisory Board of the Text Encoding Initiative. Hosted by the University of Ill...

J. Edgar Hoover once described Emma Goldman as one of the "most dangerous anarchists in this country." Goldman's criticism of mandatory conscription and her advocacy of women's rights, free love, birt...

History teachers know they can't cover all they want in a lecture or a course, and when they pack their lectures even more tightly students may not retain those last few facts anyway. Clearly, some hi...