Fiscal 1998 Appropriations Although the appropriations process is not yet over at the time we go to press, there is good news to report on the fiscal 1998 budgets of a number of federal agencies. On O...

Arthur Zilversmit (Lake Forest Coll.), chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 1997 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Associatio...

The terror, futility, and destructiveness of war have been with us since time immemorial. Because conflict is central to the story of humanity, scholars have studied and been fascinated by war and its...

On a gloomy October day in 1995, the chair of the University of Wyoming's history department summoned all graduate students in the department to a meeting. He announced that the doctoral program no lo...

William Ferris May Head NEH The president has announced his intention to nominate William Ferris, the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississi...

The training of teaching assistants (TAs) has always been something of an anomaly in the modern research university. Since World War II the attention of faculty in such institutions has generally been...

As Education Secretary Richard W. Riley declared in February 1997, during his State of American Education Address at the Carter Center, "If ever there was a time to push American education to a higher...

Recent "labor" unrest at Yale and other universities by teaching assistants (TAs) has illuminated problems of communication between administration, faculty, and graduate students. Considerable confusi...

The 112th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 8-11, 1998, in Seattle, at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, the Sheraton Seattle, and the Westin S...

For a long time, school textbooks in Japan were produced by the government. This changed in 1948, when a system of "screening" by the Ministry of Education was introduced, This system allowed many pri...