As America's high schools have begun to introduce the study of world history, teachers often have found themselves unprepared because university history departments have not offered such courses for g...

Revive the White-Collar WPA To the Editor: I wish to second the sentiments expressed in Andrew Gyory's letter ("Nothing Irrational about Job Fears," Perspectives, April 1994, p. 20) in the April issue...

To the Editor: As president of the Institute for Historical Study, an AHA-affiliated organization, I am writing to make clear the strong differences between our organization and the unfortunately name...

Society of American Historians Honors Four The Society of American Historians awarded four prizes to historians at its annual dinner on May 12, 1994, at the Union League Club, in New York City. It awa...

The American Historical Association and the history department at Indiana University in Bloomington are jointly searching for a scholar whose responsibilities will be divided between editing the Ameri...

Council Meeting, May 8–9 The Council convened for its spring meeting in Washington on May 8–9. A top priority was review of developments subsequent to the Association's decision in January to move the...

Editor's Note: The AHA Council welcomes comments from members on the following policy statement (adopted January 6, 1994) and implementation guidelines (adopted May 9, 1994) regarding the location of ...

Senate Confirms Clinton Nominees for NEH Advisory Council After months of delay, President Bill Clinton finally announced on June 17 ten nominees for the National Council on the Humanities, a twenty-s...

The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology is sponsoring a workshop on experimental ways of writing about the past. This workshop is not limited to na...

Over a generation ago, Rupert Costo, a Cahuilla Indian elder and advocate of American Indian rights since the 1930s, inspired me and other Native American historians with these words: In the past, Ind...