To Deans, Department Chairs, Administrators, and Faculty: This letter introduces “Equity for Minority Historians in the Academic History Workplace: A Guide to Best Practices,” written by the Committee...

Neil Foley (Univ. of Texas at Austin), chair of the Nominating Committee, has announced the following results of the 2007 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Associ...

Note: At its meeting in January 2008, the AHA Council accepted the report of the Working Group on the Future of the AHA. To ensure that the wide-ranging recommendations made in the report would not la...

The AHA and Academic Freedom To the Editor: Although the boycott of Israeli scholars and academic institutions proposed recently in the United Kingdom has at last been rejected by Great Britain's Univ...

Issues in Graduate Education: CGS Forum on Making the Transition to a Professional Career

To the Editor: Since joining the A.H.A. in 1942, I have tried to vote in the elections for officers—recently by mail from abroad. I was shocked to read these words (on page 17 of the January 2008 Pers...

As the dustup last fall about the deletion of "psychohistory" from our membership taxonomy indicated, inclusion on the AHA's list of membership categories can be highly political—serving in many eyes ...

When you arrive in Washington for the annual meeting, walk down the hill from the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel to Connecticut Avenue, where you will find a granite parapet surmounted by a glass canopy....

In a way letters of recommendation are the haiku of a scholar's writing: brief, pithy works that must capture the essence and personality of a person in a way that will make that individual stand out ...

Daniel R. Brower, historian of Russia, Europe, and the modern world, died on February 27, 2007. He is survived by his wife Françoise and his daughters Caroline and Valerie and their families. A well-a...