The 1997 annual meeting attracted record crowds (4,500) to the New York City site. The large attendance contributed to 18 of the 154 numbered sessions reporting standing room only. The Program Committ...

Declassification at the National Archives and Records Administration I read with interest the article by Warren Kimball on declassification, and the various responses from readers of Perspectives (Feb...

Anthony A. Iaccarino, a graduate student, was on the right track when he pointed out the need for graduate training to take into account broader job possibilities for graduates of American history Ph....

Editor's Note: The Program Committee for the 1997 and 1998 annual meetings provided scholars proposing panels and papers with a very helpful essay by Patrick Manning entitled "Preparing Your Proposal....

Conservative journals and lawmakers tried to open a new front in the attack on history with a renewed charge that the Smithsonian Institution is "falling prisoner to politically correct interpretation...

When the national history standards for United States and world history were published in the fall of 1994, none of the thirty-some professional groups that had contributed to their preparation-the AH...

I became professor emeritus of Russian history at Penn State University on June 30, 1996. My retirement came not a semester too soon; in that last year of teaching, my world turned topsy-turvy. From t...

Editor's note: Allison Blakely's article below and the essay by Gretchen Gerzina on "The Black Presence in British Cultural History," mark the end of Robert Blackey's tenure as contributing editor of ...

Editor's note: What follows is a revised version of remarks that Professor Grossberg made as part of a roundtable discussion on the dissemination of scholarship in the 21st century at the 1997 annual ...

In the late 1980s, many entered graduate school amid widespread predictions that a historic window of opportunity would open to them upon gaining their degree. Growing undergraduate enrollments couple...