In the days following the attacks in New York and Washington, I found solace in a book. It is the new and outstanding biography of Churchill by Geoffrey Best. I am not an unqualified admirer of Church...

The AHA's annual Job Register provides institutions and candidates with facilities and administrative support for position interviewing during the AHA annual meeting. In accordance with AHA policy, wh...

General Information Location of main events: AHA and affiliated societies sessions will be held in the Hilton San Francisco, Renaissance Pare 55, Westin St. Francis, and Hotel Nikko San Francisco. The...

Editor's Note: Please note the following corrections to the annual meeting program, as updated until November 14, 2001. Page numbers refer to the Program; please see the Program for additional details...

Cultural Institutions Affected by September 11 Terrorist Attacks: An Update The National Task Force on Emergency Response has issued a updated report on the impact that the events of September 11 had ...

The AHA General Meeting will take place Friday, January 4, 2002, at 8:30 p.m. in the Hilton's Grand Ballroom Salon B. President-elect Lynn Hunt (U.C.L.A.) will announce the following prize and award r...

Earlier this year, the AHA's Committee on Graduate Education (CGE) conducted a comprehensive survey of doctoral training in the discipline of history. A 41-page questionnaire was distributed to practi...

For the past several decades, residents of the San Francisco Bay area have been fortunate to have a remarkable variety of extraordinary restaurants. Except for Antarctica and possibly Australia, every...

Many readers remember the culture wars of the 1990s as a time when professors and politicians debated how concepts like democracy and racial diversity should be represented in public school history cu...

As members know, recent acts of terrorism have created many problems with the postal system in Washington, D.C. One result is that the AHA has received almost no mail during the last two weeks of Octo...