In this week’s edition of “What We’re Reading” you’ll find articles on new technology that is helping piece together the past, news on another foreign scholar denied entrance to the U.S., and a new “open book” that explores the impact of all things Google. The post What We’re Reading: September 27, 2007 Edition appeared first on American Historical Association.

We start off this week with some news items: the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History has put out a press release for the 2010 AHA Annual Meeting and Georgetown University has a new masters in global history. Then, we look at the future of print: Syracuse University is keeping its “little used” books, Tom Peters at Library Journal weighs in, and some history students switch...

The following is a reposted action alert from the National Humanities Alliance. As you may know, a significant increase for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is currently pending in Congress. We ask you to contact your legislators today and urge them to support additional funding of $15 million for the NEH. The post National Humanities Alliance Action Alert appeared first on American Historical Association.

The March issue of Perspectives contains numerous articles on the AHA’s 121st Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Read a detailed overview of annual meeting events in Debbie Ann Doyle and Pillarisetti Sudhir’s “The 121st Annual Meeting: A Retrospective.” In case you missed it, Chris Hale sums up The AHA’s First Film Festival, which consisted of a variety of films, including two audience favorites: Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes and The...

A recent decision by Japan’s Education Ministry to soft-peddle the country’s role in World War II in seven of its newest high-school history textbooks has sparked outrage on the other side of the Sea of Japan. The post Japanese History Texts Draw Fire from China and Korea appeared first on American Historical Association.

The Nantucket Historical Association offers an annual fellowship, the E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship, in an effort to enhance the public's knowledge and understanding of the heritage of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The post Grant of the Week: E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship appeared first on American Historical Association.

In the news this week, AHA President Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has won a prestigious award, the Gates Foundation has donated a significant amount to the African American History and Culture Museum, and a Russian historian has been detained for violating “privacy laws” in his research. We also link to two articles on the history of healthcare. One comes from the History Guys and another from...

The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) offers grants to master’s students, predoctoral students, professionals, and postdoctoral scholars through its Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) program. The grants support in-depth field research in policy-relevant subject areas related to Southeast Europe and Eurasia or equivalent projects. The post Grant of the Week: Grants from the International Research & Exchanges Board appeared first on American Historical Association.

In this week’s What We’re Reading we bring you an assortment of news and reviews. In the news, Cologne is rebuilding its city archives after the devastating collapse earlier this year. Then, read about a new web site that allows users to “access information about projects funded by NEH since 1980,” the ATF transferring an Alexander Hamilton document to the National Archives, and readers being...

Crossposted from the National Coalition for History’s web site. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has proposed an amendment (No. 2631) to eliminate the National Science Foundation’s political science program. Article By: Lee White, executive director of the National Coalition for History The post Urge the Senate Not to Eliminate NSF’s Political Science Program appeared first on American Historical Association.