From the Supplement to the 118th Annual Meeting

Editor’s Note: This article on the history of the honorary foreign member award is the second in the “Timelines” series exploring events and items from the AHA’s history in celebration of the associat...

It is a wonderful thing to witness the birth of a new historical field. I’ve had the privilege to be party to such an event as a founding faculty member of the International Decolonization Seminar, wh...

Paul Avrich died on February 16, 2006. He joined the Queens College faculty in 1961 and remained until his retirement in 1999. He was made distinguished professor in 1982. Avrich was a noted historian...

To the Editor: This correspondence is aimed primarily at emeritus faculty like myself, but all part-timers should take notice. My focus is on the enhanced scrutiny of non-regular faculty by the length...

No history departments have yet closed in England but it may just be a matter of time. In the past year England has become the frontline for the defense of history’s public value as a discipline. Hist...

In late November 1999, a brigade of turtles stormed Seattle. Surprisingly loud, quick, and agile, they thronged the streets and shocked the bourgeoisie—not to mention members of the World Trade Organi...

The persons whose names are listed below donated to various funds of the American Historical Association or contributed amounts beyond their normal membership dues, between November 1, 2009, and Decem...

Last February, ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. Wide international condemnation of the murderers overshadowed a sectarian crisis that unfolded in the vi...

Preeminent Historian of the American Experience Oscar Handlin died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 20, 2011, a few days short of his 96th birthday. Handlin was not merely the nat...