Washington, D.C., is known around the world as a city of monuments. Beyond them, however, is a vibrant city of varied neighborhoods that tourists seldom see. Each has its own distinct history and char...

EHA Meets at Durham The 58th annual meeting of the Economic History Association was held on September 25–27 at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham, North Carolina. Alongside 13 sessions with papers rang...

The Library of Congress welcomes members of the American Historical Association to an Open House on Saturday, January 9, 1999, 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Come visit the following reading rooms, which ar...

Editor's Note: The following essay offers advice especially useful to candidates whose interviews are prearranged. Interviews arranged on site necessarily tend to be brief and are thus more general; n...

Japan, it seems, has always been on the cutting edge of electronics and new technology. From cars to audio equipment, the nation has led the world market in production and sales. Surprisingly, though,...

History departments are attracting fewer history majors and producing fewer history BAs than five years ago, even though they are offering more courses and total undergraduate enrollments have increas...

Every year the American Historical Association honors nearly two dozen outstanding members of our profession for teaching, scholarship, and service. The recognition we thus accord these distinguished ...

The Fund for the Advancement of Social Studies Education (FASSE) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) has named Dr. William L. Ziglar of Wayne, Pennsylvania, the 1998 winner of the Ch...

Editor's Note: With thanks to the Lincoln and Soldiers' Institute at Gettysburg College, we continue our tradition of bringing the thoughts of eminent practitioners of history to our readers. The foll...

Over the summer and fall, historians—in departments, in the press, and in AHA committee meetings—have passionately debated the contributions made by scholarly societies to the field. Occasioned partic...