Editor's Note: At its January 1995 meeting the AHA Council, at the recommendation of the AHA Professional Division, endorsed the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) report, "The Statu...

An invisible majority holds 58 percent of all faculty appointments in American colleges and universities.[1] Essential as a low-cost means to grant leave to tenure-track faculty and increasingly numer...

To the Editor: Prompted by Liah Greenfield and Lloyd Kramer's opportune and stimulating exchange on pedagogical approaches to nationalism in the November 1994 issue of Perspectives, we would like to s...

To the Editor: Colin Palmer's article in the February 1995 issue of Perspectives correctly points out the need to tell Caribbean history "from the perspective of those who made it and lived it." He fo...

The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) held its annual conference in conjunction with the AHA on January 5–8, 1995. Some 130 members attended the CLAH luncheon, held at the Berghoff Restauran...

In early June the House Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies will decide whether to set aside money for fiscal 1996 for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Also in June, the Sena...

At the January 1995 annual meeting, the Professional Division sponsored a session on the employment of historians as part-time and non-tenure-track faculty, and the division moved forward at its sprin...

A majority of the Cincinnati city council voted on March 8, 1995, to remove sexual orientation from the city's Human Rights Ordinance, which was originally approved by the city council in November 199...

The AHA has paid a total of $165,682.90 (including a small amount in legal fees) to settle damage claims made by five Cincinnati hotels after the Association cancelled plans to hold its January 1995 m...

For several years the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been collecting job market data from the American Sociological Association (ASA), the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Col...