More than a decade in the making, the 24-volume American National Biography (ANB) has just been published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies (AC...

The 113th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held January 7–10, 1999, in Washington, D.C., continued a string of successful meetings, with more than 4,500 in attendance, despite se...

The dream of the virtual library comes forward now not because it promises an exciting future, but because it promises a future that will be just like the past, only better and faster.—James J. O'Donn...

Will the increasing use of computers in the classroom revolutionize education in the United States? In the short term, I doubt that the utilization of new media resources will fulfill the optimistic p...

Quite unexpectedly, this issue turned into a sequel to last year's special issue on the effect of the new information technologies on the practice of history. As the surveys by the AHA and Dennis Trin...

Court Petitioned to Grant Access to Alger Hiss Records On December 15 Public Citizen filed a petition in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York seeking an order releasing 50-year...

Use of the Internet and World Wide Web has become an intrinsic part of the work of academic historians, according to an AHA survey of history departments in the United States and Canada. More than 75 ...

The speed of technological change in computing and electronic communication over the past few years has been nothing short of breathtaking. Seven years ago few outside of computer science had ever hea...

Nearly three years ago, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) added a new pedagogical tool to its web site for the educational community. It was aptly named the Digital Classroom. Vi...

What impact will the World Wide Web have on the history profession? This question and many others stemming from the advent of new computer communication technologies are of growing concern to the hist...