Portfolios have been one of the most pervasive innovations recommended by educational reformers of the 1980s and 1990s. In 1990, for example, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development...

On January 3, 2002, the Bush administration authorized the release of some 8,000 pages of a total of over 68,000 pages of Reagan administration records that were required by law to be released in Janu...

Professor Robert A. East, longtime specialist for economic, colonial, and revolutionary history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, died at York, Maine, aft...

"History is the new Rock 'n' Roll," declared Henry Beckton Jr., president of WGBH-Boston, as he welcomed guests to the first World Congress of History Producers. Many of the 380 delegates present at t...

Edgar "Ned" Newman died of cancer, a malignancy of the central nervous system, in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 30. He was a Louisiana boy, born and raised in New Orleans, enlightening us Northerne...

Editor's Note: This essay and the following one by Michael Innis-Jiminez are based on presentations made at the 115th annual meeting of the AHA in Boston. Although the presentations were made in a ses...

My teachers inspired me to become a professional historian. They taught me that history could be thrilling, intriguing, significant for understanding the present, and shot through by moral dilemmas. I...

In January 1997, an appearance by Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch (part of a week of events at the University of Iowa celebrating King's accomplishments), was met by more than 40 membe...

A Depressing Job Market? To the Editor: I’m writing in response to the report on the state of the job market by Robert Townsend in the December 2001 issue of Perspectives. While the job market picture...

Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction The Forum on European Expansion .1 and Global Interaction will hold its fourth biennial meeting at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, on...