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...

The main problem in writing letters of recommendation derives from a basic contradiction: the recommender wants to promote the candidate, yet at the same time he or she needs to convey the impression ...

The October 2007 issue of Perspectives featured a forum on a subject that takes an enormous amount of faculty members' time, yet is rarely discussed in scholarly venues—how to write effective letters ...

Editor’s Note: Debbie Ann Doyle, the AHA’s public history coordinator, attended two of the most important meetings of public historians that were held in spring and early fall 2008. We present below h...

When I started in late 2004 to revise my one-semester Latin American history survey course for the spring semester, I was dissatisfied on two points about how I had taught the course last time around....

Specialist in Czech, Slovak, and diplomatic history Thomas D. Marzik (1941–2007), professor of history at Saint Joseph's University, died of cancer at his home in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, on Octo...

Like a political version of the film Groundhog Day, the related issues of transparency with regard to presidential records and presidential libraries keep resurfacing in Washington and on the campaign...

Members should be receiving their April 2008 issue of the American Historical Review very soon. The issue contains two articles, a review essay, an AHR Forum, six featured reviews, and our extensive b...

Note: See also the other essays in this series on the National Parks: "Public Education and the National Park Service: Interpreting the Civil War" and "Remembering Repression: The GULAG as an NPS Exhi...

Under the rubric "Masters at the Movies," this column features a variety of articles about film crafted by some of the most accomplished teachers and scholars in the profession. Most of the authors ar...