In 2005, we were co-directors of a summer institute for college teachers on the theme “Rethinking America in Global Perspective,” which was sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Nat...

A problem is slowly emerging for historians in the form of librarians discarding books from their collections, a procedure that has potential long-term consequences for scholars doing research in the ...

Noralee Frankel, AHA’s assistant director for women, minorities, and teaching, writes: For years, the AHA’s Committee on Minority Historians has been concerned with the noticeable drop in the number o...

Historians have for some time extolled the wonders of the Web—all those digitized documents that have made it easy to locate primary materials at any time of the day, but also pose some significant ch...

Robert M. Warner, third director of the Bentley Historical Library and former Archivist of the United States, died on April 24, 2007, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of heart failure due to complications from...

The story is told that some weeks after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Ernest Hemingway and a friend sat in a hotel bar in Havana when Fidel Castro arrived with an entourage of staff and securit...

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., one of the most renowned and influential historians and intellectuals of the 20th century, died February 28, 2007, after a heart attack suffered in a Manhattan restaurant wh...

On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 2006 election for AHA offices. The committee is extremely grateful to all the candidates who agreed to stand for Associ...

Editor’s Note: Please note that this is an extended version of the article that first appeared in the January 2007 print edition. We often speak in anecdotal terms about changes in the profession over...

What is important to John Smith? With this one question and replicas of Captain John Smith's 17th-century map of Virginia, a fourth-grade teacher guides her students into the realm of historical inqui...