The National History Center's (NHC) International Seminar on Decolonization supports advanced research into an emerging area of scholarship, but it also does more: alumni of the seminar are using what...

I've been consistently pleased to see historians embrace the teaching of American/US history in a global context. (See the fine article by Annette C. Palmer and Lawrence A. Peskin, "What in the World ...

Signs of salary compression persist in the ranks for history faculty, as the gap between average salaries for historians in the junior and senior ranks narrowed for the fourth year in a row. The only ...

This piece is one of a series of guest posts on issues of importance to the history profession that were discussed at the 2015 annual meeting in New York. Joy Schulz teaches American and world history at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. She has published articles on US-Hawaiian relations in Diplomatic History (Oxford University Press) and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Johns Hopkins University Press)....

From the March 1980 issue of the AHA Newsletter

As readers of Perspectives on History know, on his first day in office President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order on Presidential Records that ended the practice, instituted during the early yea...

There are a number of ways to think about the question posed to this panel. Though it is always difficult to evaluate the significance of an election, particularly so soon after the contest has finish...

The Women, Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 Broadway play and 1939 hit movie, is like a glorious, screwball, cinematic female vampire. It will not die. We continue to enjoy the original, now a movie classic; a...

To the Editor: David M. Darlington writes, “The 1968 [AHA] annual meeting was moved from Chicago to New York City in protest of the police riot at the Democratic Convention that summer (“123 in 125: A...

In 16 days and on the morrow of the Martin Luther King national holiday, a black man will assume the presidency of these United States as the people bid good riddance to the worst administration in th...