The October 2009 issue of the American Historical Review is now on-line at the University of Chicago Press.  It contains two forums, one on “Truth and Reconciliation in History;” the other on “Taylor Branch’s America during the King Years.”  There is also our usual extensive book review section.  In addition, readers will discover something new: Following “In this Issue,” we introduce  “In Back...

It is now possible to preregister for the AHA’s 122nd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., taking place this coming January 3–6, 2008. Members should login to member services to take advantage of member discounts on meeting registration. Non-members can register through a link on the Annual Meeting registration page. Preregistration closes December 21, 2007; so make sure you don’t miss this window of lower...

he 2007 National Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums will take place this October 23-25 in downtown Oklahoma City. The theme this year is “Guardians of Language, Memory and Lifeways, ” with the conference logo featuring the Oklahoma State Capitol’s “The Guardian” statue. While the goal of the conference is to bring together American Indian librarians, historians, and tribal leaders, all who support ...

Sixteen AHA members are among the 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected this year (out of 2,800 possible candidates) to receive the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships. The post AHA Members among New Guggenheim Fellows appeared first on American Historical Association.

Columbia University has an interesting online curriculum project that those teaching Asian history might be interested in. Sponsored by the university’s East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, Asia for Educators incorporates previous Columbia University teaching workbooks in Asian history into one site. The post Asia for Educators appeared first on American Historical Association.

Arthur M. Schlesinger jr., one of the most distinguished historians of the 20th and 21st centuries and a life member of the AHA, died of a heart attack last night in Manhattan. He was 89. The post Historian Arthur Schlesinger jr. Dies at 89 appeared first on American Historical Association.

The theme of the May 2009 issue of Perspectives on History centers on how new media (web sites, wikis, Google, and more) intersect with history. AHA president Laurel Thatcher Ulrich begins this exploration with her article “Erasing History.” In it she explains how the “digital revolution not only offers new ways of researching and disseminating history… [i]t is also creating new topics for historical...

This past weekend, Cliopatria’s Ralph Luker utilized our History Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada web site to propose the closing of “marginal” PhD programs in history as a way of reducing the glut of newly minted PhDs on the job market (read his full post). Perhaps illustrating that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as blog, the Cliopatria discussion brings to mind a memorable discussion from...

The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts is offering the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, which provides a year-long residential fellowship at the society for recipients to revise their dissertation for publication. The post Grant of the Week: Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship appeared first on American Historical Association.

Mills Kelly over at edwired wonders about the health of H-Net in the Web 2.0 era. The post Wither H-Net? appeared first on American Historical Association.