From the Letters to the Editor column of the December 2007 Perspectives

At its 88th annual meeting, the American Catholic Historical Association presented its two book prizes. The annual Howard R. Marraro Prize was conferred on Gerald McKevitt, the Ignacio Ellacuria Unive...

Publishes the American Historical Review, now in its 113th year as the premier journal in the field, and the only journal that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study cu...

Under the rubric "Masters at the Movies," this column will feature a variety of articles crafted by some of the most accomplished teachers and scholars in the profession. These authors may engage film...

To the Editor: May I respectfully but totally disagree with the basic premise of Linda Kerber’s article about presenting a conference paper (Perspectives on History, May 2008)? She believes that the p...

"Getting medieval," as those who saw the movie will remember, is the phrase employed by Ving Rhames in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as he was preparing to torture with the aid of a pair of pliers ...

I am a librarian by profession, a historian by avocation, and an AHA member. I am semi-retired and now work part time in the library of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, where my husband, William Ko...

Editor's Note: The following essay is part of a series that is aimed at describing and discussing interpretive programs in the National Park Service. The series was conceived and coordinated by Art Go...

History department searches take many forms. Departmental needs and the local way of balancing teaching, research, and service may shape campus visits in strikingly different ways. Factors outside dep...

Ninth-grade fingers flew over keyboards in fall 2002. Clicking, copying, and pasting, they prepared PowerPoint presentations on ancient civilizations. This student-centered activity incorporated techn...