Most history instructors embrace the ideal of being a teacher-scholar. At the same time, those of us who lived through the post-Sputnik development of the American research university know that instit...

According to the constitution of the AHA, the Professional Division is charged primarily with monitoring the job market and ensuring "equal opportunities" for all historians, whether or not they are m...

The current sense of crisis in the job market pales when compared with the surfeit of history Ph.D.’s produced in the 1970s that created a “lost generation” of historians. In contrast to recent annual...

This year, once again, we have solicited information from history departments on "doing history" now and into the 21st century. During campus visits, at the department chairs' lunch at the annual meet...

For the first time ever, a broad range of actors interested in area studies gathered in late January at UCLA to examine past accomplishments, changing contexts, and needs for the future. From the acad...

It is with both pleasure and concern that I present my third and final annual report for the Research Division. My three-year tenure as vice president has been a most rewarding one. It has been a part...

The Committee on Minority Historians continues in its efforts to highlight issues of particular concern to minorities within the profession. The committee members during 1996 were Cynthia Blair, gradu...

Editor's Note: Theodore Rabb was principal historical adviser for the television series described in this article. He wrote the article because he received many questions about the workshop and though...

Wendi Maloney, editor of Perspectives since March 1995, has stepped down to take an editorial position with the American Writing Corporation, a Washington, D.C., firm that produces publications for th...

What most dismays me about our performance as academic historians, a concern quickened by debates over modes of teaching, is our lack of acute curiosity about the process of learning itself. We like t...