When should historiography be taught to students? A few university history departments include historiography courses for their upper-level and honors students. I myself was introduced to the subject ...

Editor's Note: The following report is based on a letter from David Thomas, a program manager at the Public Record Office in Kew, England. The information may be helpful to AHA members who plan to con...

Editor's Note: The following text provides details about those who received AHA honors and awards during the Association's general meeting, which took place on January 5, 1996, during the AHA annual m...

Government Will Not Appeal AHA v. Carlin The government defendants in the litigation American Historical Association v. Carlin decided on December 15 to dismiss their appeal. This case focused on the ...

Until very recently historians, as a group, were not what one might call "electronically inclined." If we owned computers, they were little more than glorified word processors that played prerecorded ...

Constructions of the past are powerful weapons in South Africa. The apartheid state and its allies used a history that was peculiarly distorted to fit their goals, a history in which whites brought ci...

Editor’s Note: Because of space limitations, we are not able to publish all of the obituaries that we have received. We will publish additional obituaries in spring issues of the newsletter. Darwin F....

Research on American history is undertaken in many areas of the world, often in response to U.S. influence intellectual, economic, or military-in a particular country or region. Some scholars concentr...

The publication of the October 1995 issue of the American Historical Review marked the completion of David Ransel's remarkably successful 10-year term as editor. In a period of considerable intellectu...

To the Editor: Sandria Freitag has done historians a great favor by alerting them to the problems the profession faces in ensuring a continuing supply of new knowledge through the publication of monog...