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...

Every weekday morning, nowadays, I start work with a trip. I rise, like most codgers, before the sun. I make coffee. And then I down sit at the computer and let it take me on a virtual journey across ...

Congressional Appropriations Committees Announce Restructuring In the new 110th Congress, the House and Senate Appropriations Committee will have common subcommittee structures, a move that the incomi...

Stow Persons, Carver Professor of History emeritus at the University of Iowa, died at his home in Iowa City on January 6, 2006, at the age of 92. Persons was born on June 15, 1913, in Mt. Carmel, Conn...

In 2009 the Library of Congress (LC) really got “with it” out in cyberspace where students and even their teachers increasingly gather. On January 27, LC launched a Twitter feed. On April 7, LC opened...

Editor's Note: At its January 7, 2007, meeting, the AHA Council accepted the resolution on U. S. Government Practices Inimical to the Values of the Historical Profession, but because the resolution ca...

Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography; life member of the AHA David Herbert Donald’s untimely death on May 17, 2009, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the virtues of one of the most accompli...

To the Editor: The article " Disability and the Transformation of Historians' Public Sphere" in the November 2006 issue of Perspectives caused me some concern. Specifically, the authors' suggestion of...

Marshall W. Fishwick died in his home in Blacksburg, Virginia, May 22, 2006, at age 82. Fishwick had enjoyed a successful career as university teacher and curriculum pioneer for over 50 years. He rece...

It would be hard to deny that the digital revolution has changed our classrooms. PowerPoint has changed how we present our lectures, e-mail has altered how we communicate with our students, and classr...