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...

The Atlanta History Museum The Atlanta History Museum brings the story of Atlanta's past to life. Visitors to the museum, which is part of the Atlanta History Center, learn about how Atlanta grew to b...

Too many students accept history as the study of "one damn thing after another." They seem to lack any analytical framework for sorting and analyzing the hum and buzz of daily events. For these studen...

The American Historical Association's annual Job Register provides institutions and candidates with facilities and administrative support for position interviewing during the AHA Annual Meeting. In ac...

I have been much revived by receiving two letters from you last Night ... . We have had very dry weather not a rainy day since you left us ... the Cattepillars have been innumerable. —Abigail Adams to...