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...

Declaring that they "deplore the present drive to impeach" President Bill Clinton, more than 400 historians signed a letter objecting to current impeachment proceedings that they fear will have "the m...

Goldfield's Gold Spoon Selections Washington, D.C., has become one of the nation's great eating cities. You can find all variety of food and prices; the numerous ethnic restaurants are often very high...

We must be doing something right, we've been here for 200 years. That line, from the feature song of Robert Altman's mocking celebration of the nation's bicentennial, the 1975 film Nashville, might we...

The microphones are ordered and the rooms are prepared for what promises to be one of AHA's largest meetings ever—the 113th annual meeting to be held January 7–10 in Washington, D.C. As in years past,...

1999 Funding for Federal Cultural Agencies Following the passage of four brief stopgap funding measures, Congress finally passed an omnibus appropriations bill. The bill included increases for the Nat...

Lillie Johnson Edwards (Drew Univ.), chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 1998 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Association....

Editor's Note: The following essay originally appeared in the inaugural issue (June 1998) of the recently launched Journal of the Association for History and Computing. It is reprinted here (with perm...

When people declare that “history will judge,” historians shake their heads.

Edward G. Gray, cultural historian of Early America and the United States, passed away on December 22, 2023.