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...

Editor’s Note: The AHA works in collaboration with a number of other scholarly societies (both discipline-based and area studies-focused) through two major consortia, the National Humanities Alliance ...

I write in defense of active learning in the classroom. This does not mean that I also rush to defend every utterance written in defense of active learning, particularly the sillier ones that Daniel T...

An ad hoc subcommittee of the Council has been formed to assess the role and place of Perspectives in the work of the Association. The review will include an assessment of present content, topics requ...

Historians and Archivists Seek Public Interest Standard for Unsealing Grand Jury Records On February 3, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Counc...

The first difficulty encountered by an individual attempting to evaluate active learning is determining the point at which learning becomes “active” and not merely “passive.” In Promoting Active Learn...

Should we all become public historians? I advance this as a serious proposition because of the challenges that confront us in 1997 and for the foreseeable future. I realize in saying this that public ...

Editor's Note: This article is the first in a series analyzing the current state of the academic job market for historians and the employment of history Ph.D.'s. Although one of the latest studies on...

Just how much of the "new history" is new? Though students increasingly learn about the diverse peoples who lived in the United States, their classroom experience is still, for the most part, quite tr...

J. H. “Jack” Hexter, emeritus professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis and at Yale University, who launched a major scholarly effort to chronicle the history of modern freedom, died ...