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...

This year's National History Day centered on the theme "Conflict and Compromise in History." The nationwide contest, in which more than 500,000 students participate in each year, culminated at the Uni...

In graduate school, the relationship between the graduate student and his or her adviser is crucial to the student's development. Graduate students rely on their advisers to mentor them through all as...

From the Masters at the Movies series in the May 2008 issue of Perspectives on History

On July 22, 2008, a federal court in New York ruled that the government must release most of the sealed grand jury records from the 1951 indictment of alleged Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. ...

New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science has established a master's program in Archives and Public History. "The 21st century demands that these professionals and scholars have a broa...

AHA vice president and editor of American National Biography; presided over the Society of American Historians John A. Garraty, Gouverneur Morris Professor emeritus at Columbia University, died on Dec...

At its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., held on January 5, 2008, during the annual meeting of the AHA, the Society for Italian Historical Studies (SIHS) announced its awards for 2007. The committee...

Former president of the OAH; renowned historian of race George M. Fredrickson, the Edgar E. Robinson Emeritus Professor of History at Stanford University, died at home on February 25, 2008, of heart f...