"I want to make sure the NAACP is heard wherever race is discussed in the country, whether in the White House or in neighborhood stores," said historian Julian Bond following his election as chair of ...

John W. Hall, A. Whitney Griswold professor of history emeritus at Yale University, died on October 21, 1997, at his home in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 81. He was a distinguished scholar and a lea...

Historians come in many forms and interests, situated in a variety of institutional settings (and often outside them, in the case of independent scholars and adjuncts). A nationally based umbrella org...

Do we still believe that good teaching emerges from a teacher's love of the subject? A generation ago a book called The Art of Teaching, by scholar and teacher Gilbert Highet, argued eloquently that g...

Contributing Editor's Note: Teaching issues are being discussed by historians in an ever-growing number of settings including local and regional societies. This essay was identified by Peter Holloran,...

Fears that the Campaign Reform and Election Integrity Act (H.R. 3485)—sponsored by Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.)—would significantly restrict the ability of nonprofit organizations such as the AHA to en...

Bill Ferris Testifies before House Subcommittee On March 12, 1998, the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies of the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing to consider the fiscal 1999 bu...

We reprint below extracts from "The Study of History in Schools," a report presented in 1898 to the AHA by the "Committee of Seven" (Andrew McLaughlin, professor of American history at the University ...

Archives Instructed to Reappraise Okinawa Films On February 2, 1998, Judge T. S. Ellis III of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in Seiko Green v. The National Archives...

The Teaching Division and the Council of the American Historical Association endorse the criteria presented in the following statement as an appropriate basis for evaluating the efforts of institution...