Robert Francis Byrnes Robert Francis Byrnes, professor emeritus of history at Indiana University, died on June 19, 1997, in Ocean Isle, North Carolina, while visiting with his family at an annual reun...

Editor's Note: The essay that follows was first published in the new journal Rethinking History 1:3 (December 1997). We reprint it here (with the permission of Routledge, the journal's publisher) beca...

To the Editor: In "Downsizing Hits Home" (Perspectives, December 1997), Greg O'Brien has presented a rather distorted version of the circumstances surrounding the phasing out of the PhD program in his...

To the Editor: The December 1997 Perspectives was one of the most depressing I have read. The celebrity chasing was too much to bear. The essays on Roosevelt, Wilson, and Kennedy started it. The first...

Terry Sanders, writer, director, and producer of Into the Future, is a prolific filmmaker whose documentaries and dramatic films have won several awards. Among the films he made or helped to create ar...

In "Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts" (Perspectives, November 1997), Dipesh Chakrabarty argues that although academic "majority" history has brought "minority" histories of marginalized and oppress...

To the Editor: I enjoyed Morey Rothberg's article, "History in the Public Arena: The AHA and the Smithsonian" in the January 1998 Perspectives. I think, however, something needs to be added concerning...

To the Editor: As a long-standing member of the AHA and as the liaison officer between the AHA and the Modern Greek Studies Association, I write in protest concerning one of the changes recently made ...

The African American Odyssey, an exhibition chronicling black America's quest for full citizenship from the Revolutionary War to the 20th century, as well as the art, photography, businesses, and fami...

What can you say about teaching U.S. history in a country that most Americans cannot find on a map, a country where "yes" means no, and the word for "water" is spelled "a-i-r"? You can say the Republi...