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...

Secrecy, a new film by Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss about government classification debates, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. Historian Tom Blanton, ...

The current economic downturn provides a painful reminder that scholarship, like education in general, tends to suffer in hard times. With the exception of a few private universities with large endowm...

Not long ago, a very articulate historian who often blogs about teaching and research headed a post "I feel dirty." "I just wrote a letter," she explained, "that I really shouldn't have written." Aske...

The 123rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 2–5, 2009, in New York City at the Hilton New York and the Sheraton New York. More than 1,500 scholars, including 2...

The AHA held its second Film Festival, at its 122nd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., showcasing an eclectic range of documentary subjects. First on the docket on Thursday, January 3 was the intrigu...

Something has happened to the way we talk about what we do as historians. A decade or so ago, we spoke of "scholarship" or "research," of "topics," or even of "work." Now everyone has "projects." The ...

To the Editor: In the October issue of Perspectives Caroline Walker Bynum writes to denounce "The P Word"—"project." She asks that we view historians' work in terms of "scholarship," not "projects." "...

In a white paper issued in October 2008, a working group set up by the National History Center urges history departments to reassess their curriculum for history majors, with an eye towards emphasizin...