Elsewhere in this issue of Perspectives readers will find Council's announcement of our search for Sandy Freitag's successor as executive director of the Association. Sandy assumed the Association's ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally written by Patrick Manning, who drew upon his experience as a member of the Program Committee. With the author's permission, the cochairs of the Program Comm...

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Editor's Note: This report is based on published documents and e-mail responses to questions sent out to various historians. A new organization for historians—The Historical Society—was launched in la...

The 113th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (formerly the Sheraton Washington) and the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Hot...

The Year 2000 Program Committee invites panels on "History for the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change." The advent of a new millennium offers an opportunity for members of the historical prof...

In May the Washington Women Historians held their annual "Works in Progress" Conference at Howard University, Washington, D.C. This year's conference featured presentations on a wide range of topics b...

Column Editor's Note: The article below passes along advice from those who survived the transition from undergraduate to graduate school. One of the authors went directly from undergraduate to graduat...

Everywhere there is talk of crisis in the nation's schools and of uncertainty over the fate of public education. Of a few things, however, we can be sure. We can be certain that teacher education will...

By the time you read this, the Congress of the United States may have approved a much needed boost in the budget of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). If so, it will improve the ...