The new academic year signals the initiation of a range of AHA activities, which will be taken up on a new scale and with a new intensity. Readers of Perspectives will find out more in the coming mont...

The contentious public debates over the interpretation of history that have made headlines during the past few years recently inspired me to reflect on my own experience with some of the issues that h...

Editor's Note: Robert Blackey's term as editor of the Teaching Innovations column concluded with the end of the 1995-96 academic year. Articles solicited by Blackey will, however, be published through...

Editor's Note: This article, which first appeared in the May 1996 issue of the OAH Newsletter, is reprinted with permission from the Organization of American Historians. If there is sufficient interes...

The policy board of the National History Education Network (NHEN) is pleased to announce that Loretta Lobes is the new director of NHEN. The board was impressed with Lobes's training, her ability to o...

The 1998 annual meeting of the Association will be held in Seattle, Washington, January 8-11. The Program Committee welcomes proposals by all members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), by ...

Editor's Note: H-Net maintains NCC Washington Update, by Page Putnam Miller, on the World Wide Web. For more information about the topics covered in this report, go to http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc. AHA P...

Last year, Patrick Manning provided clear instructions for the preparation of AHA panel proposals in an essay entitled "Preparing Your Proposal for the 1997 Annual Meeting" (Perspectives, September 19...

The 111th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in New York City at the New York Hilton and Towers and the Sheraton New York Hotels. Hotel reservation information is inclu...

This column in Perspectives is often about a teaching or classroom innovation that affects students. In this instance, however, it's about a novel experience for the teacher, one that made him rethink...