On a recent day in April, I visited an Iowa school to observe a history lesson.1 The class I visited was in the third week of a six-week unit on industrialization. The students had studied various ima...

On March 1, 2007, noted historian Robert Dallek presented testimony on behalf of the AHA to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and the Na...

According to a new federal survey, the number of history PhDs conferred in 2005 fell to the lowest level in almost a decade—down to 924 degrees from 975 the year before—and it appears the number of hi...

Editor's Note: The AHA Council decided to seek ratification of the "Resolution on United States Government Practices Inimical to the Values of the Historical Profession" that was adopted at the AHA bu...

Heading into the new academic year, history departments across the country are struggling through a wide range of cuts and general uncertainty about their departmental budgets. The effects of the curr...

Electronic media are now ubiquitous in our profession. Nevertheless, they have entered the profession differentially; their availability and use varies widely, and we are still trying to work out how ...

To the Editor: The undersigned members of the AHA write in support of the "Resolution on Practices of the US Government Inimical to the Values of the Historical Profession." The resolution was adopted...

Paul Gaston of the University of Virginia first introduced me to John Hope Franklin at an annual meeting of the American Historical Association in the late 1970s. I was starting off my teaching career...

Historian of Mexican political thought With the death of Charles Adams Hale, historians of Mexico in this country, in Mexico, and abroad, and the guild of Latin American historians more generally, hav...

Rarely is a historian's death an occasion for a front-page article in the "Week in Review" section of the New York Times. Sam Tanenhaus's meditation on Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s contribution to publ...