Deadlines are deadlines! Perspectives must conform to printers’ schedules which have very little give—though we can occasionally slip in a stop press item. This issue is being put to bed just before t...

The members of the 1987 Program Committee were Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt University (chair); Alexander Rabinowitch, Indiana University (co-chair); Carlos E. Cortes, University of California, Riverside; ...

Women's history has made vast advances in the past twenty years. Where we are going with these advances, however, is less certain and where we should be going is something we might do well to consider...

I was introduced to this field one evening in March 1964, when I received a telephone call from a colleague in the Disaster Research Center at my university—Ohio State. He asked me if I would like to ...

Although historians urge the close, critical reading of documents in their own work and in the classroom, they rarely treat the textbooks, paperbacks, and articles they assign and review in the classr...

Sports are for scholars. Just recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education (October 7, 1987) carried a story on Yale University’s new interim athletic director. It seems that Yale has appointed a class...

In 1818, when Illinois joined the Union, the state was welcomed as a sister by The Spy, a Cincinnati, Ohio newspaper: “Like Minerva from the head of Jove, she has sprung into life in full maturity of ...

By the time members receive this issue, the 1987 annual meeting in Washington will be just a memory; a pleasant memory for those who attended, which creates feelings of relief and accomplishment for t...

Dear Editor: Thank you for publishing my article on school/university collaboration in history in the November issue of Perspectives. I would like to correct an error in the byline, which indicates t...

Exchange between ACLS and Joan B. Huffman, Concerning Her Letter in December 1987 Perspectives Dear Professor Huffman: Ruth Waters of our Fellowship Office has passed along your letter to Samuel Gammo...