What can teachers do to impress upon their students the importance of history? Current pedagogy emphasizes the need to make today's classrooms relevant and exciting. This is a troublesome concern, giv...

Update on the PROFS Case The PROFS case continues to move forward on a number of fronts. On August 25 the National Archives released new regulations that reflect many of the rulings in the case. On Au...

Students at El Camino Community College and California State University at Dominguez Hills reflect the multifaceted mosaic of contemporary American society. Both campuses are situated between the inne...

The Mellon Foundation recently announced significant progress in its project to bitmap back issues of 10 journals in history and economics. These electronic images will be made available on line, on a...

Editor's Note: What follows is a revised version of remarks Professor Ransel made to introduce a roundtable at the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Montréal on August 30, 1995. Ne...

The American Historical Review now has a home in the World Wide Web. To see the AHR Web page, use Web browser software, such as Mosaic or Netscape (both available at no cost on the Internet), to open ...

On July 31 the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Independent Agencies Appropriation bill, which includes funding levels for fiscal 1996 for the Natio...

After more than 20 years of teaching, I have learned that each new class is an adventure with respect to historical thinking. I know, in the broadest terms, what I want students to gain: I want them t...

Editor's Note: The following observations are intended to accompany those of David Ransel, which appear on pages 5–6 of this issue of Perspectives. We hope that these two companion articles will promp...

This month's Teaching Innovations column features a forum on a subject that is invariably woven into most everything we do that is classroom related: teaching students to think historically. Knowing t...