The Obama administration has passed the six-month mark, and appointments to key positions affecting historians are finally starting to fall into place. While all these individuals have had their names...

At its meetings held June 2 and 3, 2007, in Washington, D.C., the AHA’s Council reached the following decisions: Approved the minutes of the January 2007 meeting. Approved a formal policy for adding ...

The report of the AHA Committee on the Master's Degree in History is thoughtful and thoroughly researched. In this essay, I propose to complement the broad coverage of the report by analyzing the MA d...

To the Editor: I was surprised to learn that psychohistory had been deleted from the list of subspecialties. If I take the subjects that interest my younger colleagues as any indication of where the d...

Monumental scholar of American slavery and Reconstruction; 1989 Award for Scholarly Distinction winner Kenneth M. Stampp, a formidable scholar and teacher and one of the most influential historians of...

The Association has established a Technology Advisory Committee to provide guidance to the AHA Council and staff on how the organization’s electronic publishing program might do better today and where...

The architecture’s perfect. You could shoot 360 degrees. But the great bonus that I did not anticipate was the refugees. There were hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees, many of whom are actors bec...

At its meeting on January 4, 2007, the Council of the American Historical Association approved the following statement, prepared by the Teaching Division. Resolved that the American Historical Associa...

Washington, D.C., the site of the AHA's 2008 annual meeting, hardly needs an introduction. The nation's capital looms so large in the public eye that even those Americans who have never visited the ci...

The World History Association will celebrate its 25th Anniversary at its 16th Annual Conference in downtown Milwaukee, 28 June–1 July 2007. The conference theme is "Expanding Horizons, Collapsing Fron...