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...

The 1994 Program Committee saw as its task the shaping of a program representative of the breadth and depth of the work of the historical profession as a whole. We sought to promote excellence in rese...

To the Editor: In May 1993, I and one-half the AHA membership received a mailing from the "Institute for Historical Review" (IHR), an anti-Semitic group specializing in denying the Holocaust, which yo...

Within the context of the site selection policy adopted in January (see page 17), the AHA Council at its May meeting reviewed its decision to hold the 1996 annual meeting in Atlanta. The specific conc...

To the Editor: Readers of Maxine Lurie's article in the April 1994 Perspectives ("Revitalizing State History in the Classroom," p. 17) may gain a distorted impression of the argument I made in the Nov...

The 109th annual meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois, at the Chicago Hilton and the Palmer House Hilton hotels. Hotel reservation information is included on page 6 of this issue of Perspectives....

Errant Hitler Analogy To the Editor: In the context of the recent Cincinnati/Chicago controversy, Thomas Holt wrote ("Adhering to Principle on Human Rights," Perspectives, April 1994, p. 21) "We might...