To nurture interest in history among students and to encourage their mentors, the AHA is offering special registration rates for high school and undergraduate teachers who are accompanied by their stu...

After a rigorous screening process, the following 15 scholars were selected—from more than 50 applicants—to participate in the third international seminar on decolonization that the National History C...

To the Editor: As a fellow medievalist I enjoyed reading Gabrielle Spiegel’s article in the September 2008 issue of Perspectives on History. But I wish you had not perpetrated an ahistorical absurdity...

Saul Benison died of pneumonia in a nursing home in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 5, 2006. He was born in New York City on November 2, 1920, grew up in Brooklyn, and graduated from Queens College in...

San José State University and University of Hawai'i Professor and Administrator Life member of the American Historical Association, H. Brett Melendy, who was both professor and administrator at two ma...

To the Editor: On page 13 of the November 2008 issue of Perspectives on History there was a note about the Presidential Address. I read the note several times, and asked my fellow historians whether t...

Theodore L. Agnew Jr., longtime member of the Department of History at Oklahoma State University and a life member of the AHA, died April 15, 2007, in Tucson, Arizona. Ted Agnew was born in 1916 in Og...

National Archives to Restore Research Room Hours Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein has announced that the National Archives will restore its evening and weekend hours in its Washington, D...

In a recent study of graduate education and graduate programs in history in the United States, the AHA's Committee on Graduate Education concluded that "retention and attrition are extremely important...

Members will have received (or will shortly get) their October issue of the American Historical Review, which contains two articles, a forum, seven featured reviews and our normal extensive book revie...