The remarkable success of the College Board's Advanced Placement program in world history is one sign of a new commitment among educators to increasing student competency in international history, cul...

To the Editor: I am writing to draw attention to what seems to me a growing tendency on the part of departments of history and university presses to treat members of our profession, especially younger...

The Committee for Graduate Students, chaired by Elise S. Lipkowitz, has, working in collaboration with Elisabeth Grant, AHA's web content editor, updated and redesigned the Resources for History Gradu...

In April, the National Coalition for History (NCH) launched a new, attractively informative web site at www.historycoalition.org. This is an exciting development because it allows NCH to bring you acc...

The “framework decisions” of the Council of the European Union rarely get the attention of historians. Intended to align the laws of the various EU member states, the framework decisions deal with mat...

The 122nd annual meeting of the Association will be held January 3–6, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Wardman Park, the Omni Shoreham, and Hilton Washington hotels. Over the course of the n...

Editor’s Note: The late Roy Rosenzweig, an inspiring pioneer in the magical arts of melding history and new media, has been remembered in many an elegiac essay. In one sense, this special issue of Per...

Teaching history to college students means—by extension—teaching history to students in grade school. Historians are not typically accustomed to considering their teaching in this sense. However, hist...

In early 2006, the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the directors of the History Engine invited faculty from NITLE-member campuses to join in a new collaboration bas...

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...