The Nominating Committee for 1998--99, chaired by Lillie Johnson Edwards (Drew Univ.), met in Washington, D.C., January 31--February 2, 1998, and offers the following candidates for offices of the Ass...

One of the responsibilities of the AHA's Professional Division is to monitor the market for jobs in history. A few years ago, issues such as plagiarism and allegations of unprofessional conduct compri...

Despite concerns by many in the academy, U.S. News & World Report published new rankings of PhD and professional programs late last month. The lists rank history programs using "reputation ratings." T...

To the Editor: As a historian who researches, writes, and teaches about "gender" and "women" (as well as race, sex, and a good deal more) in American history, I feel compelled to respond to Norman B. ...

In this space last month you may have read my personal reflections on why I, a historian of Africa, supported the American Historical Association through more than a few years—even at a time when Afri...

This past October, just under three decades since the last all-university meeting, representatives from the history departments of seven of the eight Indiana University campuses met at the Indiana His...

Awards for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year a nominating jury recommends to the Council u...

Editor's Note: We reprint below the text of a speech delivered at the conclusion of a two-day conference on interpretations of slavery, held at the Somerset Place State Historic Site (October 31–Novem...

The Research Division (RD) has had an active year doing all of the sorts of things that have customarily formed the primary responsibilities of the division. In many ways our most important responsibi...

Stamp collectors and even ordinary people will have already realized this, but for two or three years now, on German postage stamps, it's not the old-fashioned "Deutsche Bundespost" any longer—it's ju...