The Council of the Association is scheduled to meet in Washington in early May, bringing to a close the major standing committee and governing body meetings of the 1991–92 fiscal year of the Associati...

Editor's Note: For more information on electronic mail, see “Electronic Mail and Historians” by Donald Mabry (Perspectives, February 1991), and Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1...

In 1990–91, the Committee and the U.S. Department of State made significant progress in dealing with some of the issues that had plagued the Committee in the recent past. The concerns that brought abo...

The 1991 Program in Chicago, December 27–30, 1991, took as its theme the observance of the Columbian Quincentenary. Of the 142 sessions that constituted the official AHA program, a total of twenty-thr...

Dear Editor: The article by Morris, Kazmierczak, and Schoen, "A Faculty Bill of Rights for Library Services" (Perspectives, March 1992), had much to say about the performance of librarians and what un...

The decision by the Museum of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia, to mount a major exhibit on African-American life under slavery struck many local Richmond residents, both black and white, as som...

Dear Editor: In the March 1992 issue of Perspectives, L. Morris et al., present an excellent article on a faculty bill of rights for library services. In the article they state, "Periodicals subscript...

The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for the federal courts. At the end of 1988, Congress added a provision to the Center's statute authorizing it to conduct, coordinate, a...

Downsizing, budget reductions, layoffs, furloughs, fee increases, and privatization—these are words and practices that have become increasingly familiar features of the public administrative landscape...

Dr. Boyd C. Shafer, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and former executive director of the American Historical Association and editor of the American Historical Review from 1...