Constructions of the past are powerful weapons in South Africa. The apartheid state and its allies used a history that was peculiarly distorted to fit their goals, a history in which whites brought ci...

Editor’s Note: Because of space limitations, we are not able to publish all of the obituaries that we have received. We will publish additional obituaries in spring issues of the newsletter. Darwin F....

Research on American history is undertaken in many areas of the world, often in response to U.S. influence intellectual, economic, or military-in a particular country or region. Some scholars concentr...

To the Editor: Sandria Freitag has done historians a great favor by alerting them to the problems the profession faces in ensuring a continuing supply of new knowledge through the publication of monog...

Most historians who participate in online discussions about history do so through the H-Net listservs, but an alternative forum exists in the shape of Usenet newsgroups. Usenet is a collection of thou...

A funny thing happened on the way to writing this article. We decided to start with some history and some definitions and began to assemble this material from traditional sources—the dozens of manuals...

In last month's Director's Desk column, I pointed out some of the essential services the AHA provides to the field through its conduct of the annual meeting. That analysis is part of a larger effort t...

One of the most exciting areas within the emerging field of multimedia computer-assisted education is the family of computer products grouped under the rubric of presentation software. These packages ...

Robert Brent Toplin is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he teaches courses on American history, film and history, and Latin American history. Toplin, who r...

Editor's Note: In order to assure the widest possible distribution of the reports of AHA division vice presidents, the Association has decided to publish the reports in Perspectives. The report of the...