In the January issue of Perspectives, this column reviewed some of the pressing issues of the future that our members have identified in planning discussions. Many of these issues have great significa...

"Two for Nixon, please!" These are words that I could never envision myself saying during my student years in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Yet self-proclaimed radical filmmaker Oliver Stone induced...

Editor's Note: The Council of the American Historical Association passed the following resolution relating to the National Endowment for the Humanities at a meeting that took place on January 7, 1996,...

India represents a core Asian tradition as well as one of the oldest strands in the fabric of world civilization. Indian religions, philosophies, art, literature, and social systems have played a fund...

Fourth Continuing Resolution Allows the NEH and Other Agencies to Continue Operating With nearly one-third of the 1996 fiscal year completed, President Clinton signed legislation that will keep the fu...

Update on Funding for Cultural Programs under Latest Continuing Resolution On January 26, just as the third continuing resolution expired, the Congress passed and the president signed the fourth conti...

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...

Recent surveys of academic salaries show two clear trends for the history profession: faculty in the upper ranks continue to match or exceed rises in the cost of living, while new and junior faculty f...

The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) held its annual conference in conjunction with the AHA on January 4—7, 1996, in Atlanta. One hundred members attended the CLAH luncheon, held at the Car...

When you read what participants in National History Day say about their experiences it sounds too good to be true. After all, this is history, the subject most likely to be voted last in popularity po...