If evidence was required to demonstrate that historical analysis of "decolonization" is rapidly becoming an important theme—a subdiscipline, even—of modern historiography, all one needed to do was to ...

Editor's Note: In the September 2007 issue of Perspectives we published a marked-up version of the AHA's constitution so that members could see the amendments that the AHA's Council was proposing. To ...

New Congressional Members Appointed to the NHPRC Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) was recently named as the U.S. Senate's representative to the National Historical Publications and Records Commissio...

Walmart “Supercenter” Endangers Wilderness Battlefield Park in Virginia Evoking memories of the Walt Disney Company’s efforts to build a theme park near the Manassas Battlefield in the early 1990s, th...

The American Historical Association's annual Job Register provides institutions and candidates with facilities and administrative support for position interviewing during the AHA annual meeting. You m...

Despite the attention the profession has given to the importance of teaching over the last couple of decades, too often we still fall short when it comes to working in systematic ways to teach graduat...

I have been using films in courses for a number of years—on Russian popular culture; the United States and the USSR in the 20th century; and, most recently, Europe in World War II: History and Film, d...

December 1, 2007, marked my first anniversary as executive director of the National Coalition for History (NCH). It is hard to believe that 12 months have passed since my predecessor Bruce Craig spent...

Washington, D.C., is one of the most accessible cities in the world for visitors with disabilities. Here are a few resources: DisabilityGuide.org (www.disabilityguide.org) is a free site with disabili...

Editor's Note: The following article is one of a series on public history and the profession, commissioned by the Professional Division. Public history programs, at the certificate, undergraduate, or ...