This article is part of the "Who Owns History?" forum (four articles, three of which appeared in the October 1996 issue of Perspectives). History has been controversial since the days of Thucydides, b...

Recently, the staff of the AHA sat down together to review the way we interact with members in our everyday work. New staff members (who were AHA members even before being hired) pointed out to us tha...

Editor's Note: The following forum is based on a 1996 AHA annual meeting session entitled "Who Owns History?" This month we are publishing two of the papers presented at the session, one by Spencer Cr...

Ownership is a word that has been used frequently in recent years as a key concept in the culture wars. It is a useful concept, and I have employed it for more than a decade in talking with teachers o...

Early in their history, American museums developed a strong interest in creating an educational environment for their visitors. One of the first American museums, the Charles Wilson Peale Museum, in P...

A group of historians interested in promoting newspaper articles and op-ed pieces with a historical point to make have joined together to form the ad hoc AHA press committee. The group's goal is to en...

Under the bylaws pursuant to Article VIII, Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the constitution, the executive director invites all members of the Association to submit to her, on or before January 17, 1997, reco...

As I write this article, it is early August, and the U.S. Congress has just recessed for conventions, campaigning, and even vacationing. The fate of the fiscal 1997 budget for the National Endowment f...

Editor's Note: David Trask's term as contributing editor for teaching began with the September 1996 issue of Perspectives. Articles solicited by Robert Blackey, the former editor of the Teaching Innov...

The recent spate of government cutbacks and downsizing has lent an increased burden to one branch of government: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). As government agencies lose fu...