As Page Putnam Miller reported in the January issue of Perspectives, on November 21, 1991, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decided a copyright case that may broaden the right of scholars to quote ...

A belated Happy 1992 to all our members and other readers, in this second issue of the calendar year. At the time this issue is prepared, your headquarters staff is still busy digging out from the ava...

The AHA's Research Division recently announced awards made to support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Funds for the grant program come from the earnings of a bequest from Bernadot...

I have been using biography and autobiography to teach history at Case Western Reserve University for the past ten years. I regularly teach a class called "Biography as History: Twentieth-Century Worl...

When members receive this account of headquarters' activities, we will be into the Columbus quincentennial year, the annual meeting in Chicago will be behind us, and Washington generally will be into ...

On October 26, 1990, The Center for History in the Media at The George Washington University was inaugurated by Henry Hampton, executive producer for the noted civil rights series Eyes on the Prize an...

More than fifty scholars, historians, media specialists, and independent film and videomakers gathered at New York University on September 27–28 to explore—and to affirm—the use of independent, ethnic...

The AHA Teaching Division with the support of the Association's governing Council has opened a fund drive to honor the memory of its late Vice President and leader, Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, who passed...

7) Other Business: a) Holocaust Statement: At its spring, 1991 meeting, Council discussed a Teaching Division recommendation encouraging a response to recent mailings from an Illinois couple who quest...

Earlier this fall, I received a letter from an Association member bemoaning the inability of the history profession to get its act together and address the need for history education reform. The write...