I am sure many of you remember the epic battle in 1975 between then-heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and former champion Joe Frazier known as the "Thrilla in Manila." For 14 brutal rounds, Ali and Fr...

In 2009, the AHA formed a task force to recommend ways to improve the Association's services to historians employed in community, junior, and technical colleges-a constituency that is underrepresented...

In early April, as Congress prepared to debate a major reform of US immigration laws, the National History Center brought together three distinguished historians to discuss the history of that body’s ...

AHA members are encouraged to submit news about their careers, including prizes, promotions, honors, tenure, and new jobs. If you have an announcement that you would like to publish, please send it to...

Readers open Perspectives on History expecting to find Robert Townsend's comprehensive and agile presentations of data-all sorts of data, but most often relating to the employment of historians. If he...

Editor's Note: The six articles that follow report on the AHA's Tuning project, a three-year, multi-stage exploration of the history major. James Grossman introduces this forum. Walk into a meeting of...

Ever since I left history for painting in fall 2006, people have been asking about my experience. My artist's prehistory began with drawing classes at the (then) California College of Arts and Crafts ...

Tucked away in the Senate version of the continuing resolution that kept the federal government funded for the rest of the 2013 fiscal year (Public Law 113-6) is language that places major restriction...

Writing a new lecture last week, I went looking for some old notes—and found the academic equivalent of a cold case file. There were three big boxes—stuffed full of photocopies, handwritten notes, and...

But how is one to know what will interest one's readers? That is a difficult question. Clearly it is no use to put up a man of straw, call him the Public, and then try to play down to him or up to him...