During the summer of 1999, I participated in a six-week study tour of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia, and the Czech Republic. Our group of 14 consisted of college and university faculty,...

The Society for History in the Federal Government has awarded the James Madison Prize for 2002 to K. Walter Hickel, a historian at the National Library of Medicine, for his article, "War, Region, and ...

To the Editor: Lynn Hunt's proposal to induce "old" professors to retire would harm the profession as a whole and the individuals affected, women especially. If older professors are pressured to retir...

Forty-five affiliated societies have informed the AHA headquarters office about sessions and meetings they have arranged to be held during the forthcoming 117th annual meeting of the AHA. Details abou...

"I'd like to help you out," I told Arnita Jones when she asked me last spring to become the chair of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) for the AHA's 117th annual meeting set for Chicago in Januar...

On September 20, 2002, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) held a one-day conference titled "America's Eyes: What We Were Seeing," at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) ca...

Yehoshua Arieli, McDonald Professor emeritus of American history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died peacefully at his home in Jerusalem on August 3, 2002, age 86. Among the very few foreign s...

When Gutenberg-e prizewinners from different years convened for the sixth Gutenberg-e Authors' Workshop in New York on September 23 and 24, they shared their varied experiences in transforming dissert...

To the Editor: AHA President Lynn Hunt's essay in the September 2002 issue of Perspectives on the tenure crisis identifies a real problem but misidentifies its primary cause. As a result of 38 years i...

To facilitate hotel reservations and participation in the annual meeting for those who need special physical, sight, or hearing accessibility, the following information is provided. The hotel selected...