At the same time that the supply side of the profession seems to be stabilizing, if not growing, the demand for historians appears to be shrinking—for the second year, the number of position announcements in the Employment Information section of Perspectives has decreased, hitting the lowest level in six years.

If you want to see the real Washington, anybody will tell you just to step outside our convention hotel during the morning rush and watch the lobbyists piling down Connecticut Avenue in their $75,000 cars, talking on their telephones. Fortunately, the city has also attracted a huge population of overeducated people like ourselves. Like you, they are foil of curiosity and want their money's worth. When I moved here in...

A few years ago, after struggling for some time with the problems involved in trying to write a new kind of historical narrative—one both multi-voiced and self-reflexive—I sent a chapter off to a new,...

On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 1992 election for AHA offices. (Elected candidates are indicated with an asterisk.) Total Ballots Processed 3,507 Presi...

Washington, D.C., it has been said, is a power town and the power of money, except perhaps for PACs, defers to the trappings of political power. Even the order of social preference decreed by the Offi...

Robert Townsend, editor of the last two editions of the Directory of History Departments and Organizations, has been named editor of Perspectives and managing editor of in-house publications. Emily Fr...

Congressional Report Outlines Mismanagement at the National Archives On November 2, Sen. John Glenn (D-OH), chair of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, released a report following a year-long inve...

Teaching Middle Eastern topics is often considered a uniquely problematic enterprise, hence the region is frequently avoided or minimized in Western or world civilization courses in spite of the many ...

In the centuries since Robert Beverly, Jr., wrote and published his History and Present State of Virginia (1705) in London, historians and genealogists have often consulted or copied foreign documents...

Theodore Lee Agnew, Jr. Marion Rice Andersen Lois A. Aroian G.T. Armstrong Ivan Avakumovic Paul H. Avrich Sharon A. Ayers James M. Banner Daniel A. Baugh Michael L. Benedict Nettie Lee Benson ...