As leaves begin to turn their autumn hues, aspiring professors and their mentors turn their thoughts to the academic job market. How can you best represent your research and potential curricular contr...

History refused to amble along languidly this summer. In my first weeks at the AHA—I becamePerspectives editor in June—the Supreme Court ruled that marriage is a constitutional right for all, with Jus...

The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation Releases Its 2014 Report The controversy over the preservation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail during her time as secretary of state is only t...

Get it right; and don’t be boring.” That is the advice I give to students about writing history. I stole it from Pulitzer Prize–winning former New York Times reporter Charlie Leduff after hearing him...

The Coordinating Council for Women in History long has addressed problems facing women in academia, including the issue of contingent and adjunct faculty. The total contingent workforce has grown sig...

My career path has taken unexpected turns since I completed my undergraduate major in history. In 1992, I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, uncertain what career path I w...

A few years after my arrival at the AHA, someone queried me about the Association’s “advocacy budget.” I think the question implied the sum allocated to our participation in the important work of the ...

Perhaps because of the ongoing protests for racial justice in the United States; perhaps because of the news of extremist groups who terrorize, torture, silence, and kill people in parts of Asia and ...

Most readers of Perspectives on History have probably by now encountered conversations about whether history and other humanities majors are “useful.” Generally we might infer that this question refer...

There is good reason to be concerned about the future of academic history and, more generally, the liberal arts. As increasing numbers of Americans seek higher education, colleges are under pressure t...