NCH Urges Incoming Administration to Reverse Secrecy Trend The National Coalition for History recently urged the incoming Barack Obama administration to reverse the secrecy trend of the last eight yea...

This essay focuses particularly on the mentoring problems and opportunities inherent in two-year, open-door institutions, where the diversity, economic concerns, preponderance of first generation stud...

Historians attending the 127th annual meeting are invited to participate in the 106th Annual Jackson Day Race on Sunday, January 6, 2013, starting at 8:30 a.m. The 9K (5.6 mile) race from Old Spanish ...

I was trained and began my career in the "long 1970s," back before monographs were nearly extinct, when great beasts still roamed the land. It was the Age of Big Books. Just about every important work...

Fifteen scholars from across the world gathered in Washington, D.C., recently to participate in a four-week seminar (held July 10–August 4, 2006), to explore a fascinating range of questions and issue...

President Jan E. Goldstein (Univ. of Chicago) President Elect Vicki Ruiz (Univ. of California, Irvine) Vice President, Professional Division Philippa Levine (Univ. of Texas at Austin) Councilor Profes...

Wm. Roger Louis, the Kerr chair in English history and culture at the University of Texas at Austin and a former president of the AHA, resigned—on “a point of principle”—from the chairmanship of the U...

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, which was founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1915, celebrated Black History Month, with, among other events, a glittering, well-attende...

Historian of France and Coauthor Textbook on Modern History Joel Colton, a distinguished historian of modern French and European history and professor emeritus at Duke University, died in Durham, N.C....

Over the past 15 years, a growing number of historians have wrestled with institutional review boards (IRBs). Initially developed to address abuses in the medical sciences, review boards slowly extend...