Five years ago my colleagues and I in the history department at Western Michigan University set out to develop a new doctoral program, never anticipating that our course of study would eventually be d...

Every academic year, in November and March, members of the AHA Program Committee meet in Washington, D.C., to evaluate some 250 proposals and to determine which 140 will appear on the program of the n...

Michael Grossberg arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, in mid-August to take over the editorship of the American Historical Review and to begin his tenure as a professor in the history department at India...

Although recent political changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are unique, global patterns of privatization and reduced government budgets, along with the resurgence of democratic gov...

The House After debate that spread over five days, the House approved a fiscal 1996 Interior Appropriations Bill (H.R. 1977). The bill includes appropriations for the cultural agencies as shown in Tab...

Deputy Executive Director James B. Gardner has been awarded a sabbatical, which began August 1, 1995. Gardner's leave is the first awarded to a member of the American Historical Association staff as a...

To the Editor: Having taught between 1989 and 1993 as an adjunct in the City University of New York system, I'm pleased that so much of the May/June issue of Perspectives was devoted to articles on th...

The 1997 annual meeting of the Association will be held in New York City, January 2–5. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), from sch...

Sylvia Berti (Univ. of Rome) has been selected to receive a Folger Shakespeare Library long-term residential fellowship for 1995–96. She plans to pursue her hypothesis that "early Enlightenment anti-C...

To the Editor: The juxtaposition of the two cover pieces in the latest issue of Perspectives was fascinating. The main article reports that the AHA paid $165,682 of its members' funds so that our last...