William Osgood Aydelotte University of Iowa Professor William O. Aydelotte died on January 17, 1996, at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was 85. An authority on British parliamentary behavio...

Over the past several years, job postings in the Employment Information section of Perspectives for social studies teacher-education/historian positions housed within history departments raised the qu...

After a nine-month sabbatical leave, James B. Gardner, deputy executive director of the American Historical Association, has resigned to pursue other opportunities in historical agency administration....

A massive new study by the National Research Council (NRC) provides a wealth of data on Ph.D. programs in the United States, including departmental rankings and comparative cross-disciplinary informat...

The growth of new history Ph.D.’s has accelerated according to a National Research Council (NRC) survey of 1994 PhD recipients. The 800 PhD’s produced in 1994 represent a sharp increase from 728 the y...

The Committee on Minority Historians continues in its efforts to highlight issues of particular concern to minorities within the profession. The committee members during 1995 were Cynthia Blair (Harva...

Editor's Note: In January 1994 the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) launched a national project entitled "From Idea to Prototype: The Peer Review of Teaching" to encourage university fa...

Readers Respond to "The Last Eurocentric Generation" To the Editor: As a member (evidently) of the "last Eurocentric generation" and a specialist in German history, I read with interest Caroline Walke...

Reauthorization Legislation for NHPRC Introduced On February 27 Senators Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) and Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) introduced 5.1577, a bill to reauthorize the National Historical Publications ...

I began my teaching days in the 1970s with women's history. Whether out of my own sense of wonder or just plain chutzpah, this graduate student in American studies sought to cover women's experiences ...