The 1999 annual meeting of the Association will be held January 7-10 in Washington, D.C. Members who want to participate in the program of the 1999 meeting must submit their proposals for panels by Fe...

Update on the NEH During his first month as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William R. Ferris indicated that he intends to build on existing programs and to make few programmatic c...

To the Editor: Congratulations! Your new format is a great improvement. I especially liked "Timelines." The articles in it about Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kennedy were most informative and inter...

On November 12 former AHA president John Hope Franklin received the Smithsonian's James Smithsonian Bicentennial Medal in recognition of his contributions as a U.S. historian. The evening began with a...

There is a troubling increase in the use and abuse of part-time and adjunct faculty at the nation's four-year colleges and universities, according to representatives of almost a dozen scholarly societ...

To the Editor: I write regarding "Academic Job Opportunities Better than Expected," which appeared in the October 1997 Perspectives. I appreciate Perspectives's close watch on the job market. But the...

The controversy that erupted in 1994 over the Enola Gay exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution made headlines in newspapers throughout the country. Members of t...

On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 1997 election for AHA offices. Elected candidates are indicated with an asterisk. President (one-year term) *Joseph C. ...

The state of the Teaching Division not surprisingly mirrors the state of history teaching in the United States today, embracing solid achievements and exciting new developments and experiencing an arr...

Modest archival collections are vulnerable to decisions born as much out of negligence as ill will. The transmission of certain pasts depends a great deal on chance acts and timely interventions, such...