Erving E. Beauregard (Univ. of Dayton) received the Ohioana Library Association Award for distinguished contributions to education. Robert Blackey (California State Univ. at San Bernardino), a former ...

Floyd Mallory Shumway, retired executive director of the New Haven Colony Historical Society and a former professor of history at Columbia University, succumbed to cancer on November 12, 1997. He was ...

The scholarship of public history includes, among other things, traditional historical monographs, sponsored studies of all kinds, nominations to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and othe...

Fiscal 2000 Budget for Cultural Agencies The president's budget for fiscal 2000 recommends $150 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). For the past four years NEH funding has bee...

The Council of the American Historical Association is pleased to report that Arnita Jones has accepted its invitation to assume the position of executive director of the Association for a five-year te...

Presenting history on film in a way that is both historically accurate and dramatically satisfying can be a difficult task. Last year's Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett...

Historians Film Committee The Historians Film Committee (HFC) has been busy with presentations and publications, beginning with the AHA annual meeting in Washington where hundreds of new friends met a...

Toplin on Titanic To the Editor: When a professional historian titles a review of a film "Titanic: Did the Maker of True Lies Tell the Truth about History?" (Perspectives, March 1998), it is not too m...

Film and video are among the historian's most effective teaching tools. They are fascinating primary documents to analyze; they provide vivid cultural and social contexts to complement and enrich assi...

An AHA president gets a lot of mail. It used to come through the federal and campus post offices, whose happy bungling created a good deal of breathing room. Now it arrives instantaneously, thanks (bu...