Charles Albro Barker Charles Albro Barker, an authority on American intellectual history, died in Santa Barbara on September 12, 1993, at the age of 88 from heart failure. Dr. Barker received a doctor...

"The subject is so politically and emotionally charged," lamented one student in an anonymous course evaluation, "that I yearn for objectivity, distance, and a little more freedom to discuss ideas on ...

Update on Revision of the Executive Order on Declassification In response to President Clinton's April 26 directive calling for the revision of Executive Order 12356, which establishes current classif...

The Committee on Minority Historians met in Washington on October 2. It received with gratification word that the pamphlet series it is sponsoring on diversity within America, featuring summaries of t...

David H. Pinkney, emeritus professor of history at the University of Washington, a past president of the American Historical Association, and an internationally renowned scholar of French history, die...

White House Plans to Destroy Electronic Mail Records Ruled Unlawful The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia ruled on August 13 that the record-keeping practices o...

"Amazing!" exclaimed Robert Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology film historian, gazing out at the standing-room only throng at the plenary session of a conference on film and history this p...

When Erick D. Langer of Carnegie Mellon University reviewed my book Bolivia: Press and Revolution, 1932–1964 (1986), for the Hispanic American Historical Review, he seemed surprised that newspapers co...

The October issue of Perspectives is always a special one for this column. Deadlines mandate its preparation before Labor Day at a time when the busy fall cycle of the Association's committees has not...

Editor's Note: The Council of the Association last December directed the President to call on the Librarian of Congress to protest the closing of the stacks to all researchers. During the meeting on M...