Preregistration The Program for the 122nd Annual Meeting, scheduled to be held January 3–6, 2008, in Washington, D.C., was mailed to members in October. It is also online at www.historians.org/annual/...

Editor's Note: This article on the joint AHA, National Council on Public History, and Organization of American Historians working group will also appear in the OAH Newsletter and Public History News. ...

From The Coalition Column of the December 2007 Perspectives

Members should be receiving the October 2007 issue of the American Historical Review by the end of this month. The cover, pictured here, shows a cartoon from the year 1931, satirizing what some consid...

The International Federation for Research in Women's History (Fédération International pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes) held its 2007 conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 8–12, 2007. Organiz...

One of the most frustrating things about being involved in advocating before Congress on behalf of history, or funding for any federal program, is the annual demolition derby that is the congressional...

From the News column of the February 2008 issue of Perspectives on History

Have you ever done research in a library, museum, or historical society that had received funding from the federal government for preserving the records and artifacts in its custody? Did you ever use ...

The National Bankruptcy Archives was established in 2000 as national repository of materials relating to the history of debtor-creditor relations, bankruptcy, and the reorganization of debt. The archi...

Findings from research on the undergraduate training of K–12 teachers Perspectives has been bringing us lively and provocative discussions about teacher education, the importance of history in K–12 cu...