Peter Stearns's proposal that one PhD oral exam focus on pedagogy is an excellent idea. However, in the short term, some changes in the graduate curriculum are necessary if it is to work. In the long ...

The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 helps spur passage of the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Quality Act. A decade later, Santa Barbara County has a large and elabo...

Michael Doyle (Perspectives, May 1998, pp. 1, 24–28) has thought carefully about world history as a teaching field and has exchanged ideas with colleagues who advocate it. He concludes, however, that ...

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

The production of history PhDs dipped slightly in 1996, according to the latest data from the National Research Council (NRC), which reports that 857 PhDs were conferred-down from 889 the year before....

Nearly 45,000 images from the famous photographic collection produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) have been put online by the Library of Congress. Th...

PBS will broadcast October 19-22 a four-part television series entitled Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery. (Local timings may vary.) The six-hour series, produced by WGBH Boston w...

Nixon Tapes Cut Before Return to Family Following years of legal battles, a federal appeals court ruled this spring that the National Archives must provide the Nixon estate "forthwith" all private and...

This year's J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship was awarded to Patrick J. Rael, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. The fel...

Salaries for historians at colleges and universities rose faster than the rate of inflation for the third year in a row last year. However, for the first time, surveys by the College and University Pe...