There was a solid if unspectacular increase in the number of academic job opportunities for new history Ph.D.'s last year, as departments replaced a growing number of retirees or simply added new facu...

To facilitate hotel reservations and participation in the meeting for those who need physical, sight, or hearing accessibility, the following information is provided. The hotel selected should be info...

Integrity of Foreign Relations Series Discussed at Confirmation Hearing of Assistant Secretary of State On July 24 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considered the nomination of James Rubin for t...

Jackson Holbrook Bailey Jackson Holbrook Bailey, professor emeritus of history at Earlham College, and one of the United States' most respected scholars of Japan, died at his home near Brattleboro, Ve...

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce that the following candidates were selected from among many fine applicants to receive the AHA grants and fellowships for 1997-98. 1997 Littl...

Oliver Stone's film, Nixon, was the subject of a panel at the 1997 AHA annual meeting in New York City. On Saturday evening, January 4, approximately 800 people crowded into one of the largest ballroo...

Editor's Note: We print below items received from two of the more than 100 societies affiliated to the AHA. We welcome—for publication when space is available—news from our affiliates, including brief...

This fall another round of feverish recruitment begins as American universities vie with one another for attractive job candidates. Everywhere "the market" is evoked to explain deviations from old pra...

Editor's Note: As a new item in the Public History column, we will occasionally be featuring essays on eminent practitioners in the field who have been pioneers, role models, and exemplars. I left Cha...

The new language added to the AHA's "Statement on Interviewing for Historical Documentation," which is part of its Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct, is intended to alert historians that ...