Conducted via e-mail from June 25, 2014, to December 19, 2014, and at the Council meeting on January 2 and 5, 2015 Through e-mail conversation from June 25, 2014, to December 19, 2014, the Council of...

The Ethical Historian features the Professional Division’s reactions to the ethical and professional questions it regularly receives. We welcome suggestions for this column, which may be sent to the d...

A satirical article in the Onion recently manufactured an AHA report that warns, “The past is currently expanding at an alarming rate” and “is larger now than it’s ever been before.” After laughing a...

In antiquity, Roman generals gathered up objects made from precious metals and melted them down to pay their troops. Since most silver artifacts from antiquity met such a fate, the objects found in 18...

On November 5, 1622, John Donne, then rector of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, gave a sermon that commemorated the day 17 years before when the notorious Guy Fawkes and a group of coconspirators wer...

As I entered the busy Smith Auditorium at Mount Vernon for the first evening of the George Washington Symposium, I wasn’t sure what sort of lectures I would hear. The conference, held on Friday and S...

The American Historical Association has submitted to the New York State Board of Regents a statement of concern (see next page) regarding proposed changes to the requirements for a Regents high scho...

At its June meeting, the AHA Council approved the "Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians." The approval of the guidelines was the culmination of the work of t...

One of the most attractive virtues of democratic government is that it offers protection from the many for the few. In this ideal form of Western democracy, and American democracy in particular, the ...

Found a hidden gem on the free book truck,” a former student tweeted me recently. He attached a picture of the cover: C. Wright Mills’s The Causes of World War Three (1960). As glad as I was that some...