Federal history programs must serve both the client agency and a larger public constituency. Such a dichotomy demands openness, accountability, and the highest standards of professionalism. Federal hi...

Award for Scholarly Distinction Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Lehman College and the Graduate School, City Univ. of New York Jack P. Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor...

It is a notable marker of the westward drift of world economic power from the Atlantic Basin to East and South Asia in general, and of the rapid emergence of China as an industrial super-power in part...

Editor's Note: The AHA's Honorary Foreign Membership, which was first conferred upon Leopold von Ranke in 1886, has since been awarded to 91 other "historians working outside the United States, for th...

A standing-room only crowd that turned out for the reception (on Saturday January 5, 2008) co-sponsored by the AHA Professional Division, the American Association for State and Local History, the Nati...

To the Editor: I am writing this to advocate on behalf of my own lost cause with regards to Gary W. Gallagher’s “Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten” (Perspectives on History, May 2008). Although much of ...

To the Editor: A comment on Lee White's column, "Pushing the Pace on the Founders' Papers," Perspectives on History 46:3 (March 2008). Massive, and massively expensive, letterpress editions of the fou...

To the Editor: As strongly as I support efforts to use a comparative approach in the teaching of history, I was frankly dismayed at the blatant errors that appeared in Richard Sigwalt’s essay, “Teachi...

To the Editor: With the greatest respect to President Weinstein and her views as expressed in The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Historians (Perspectives, September 2007), I should like to present a...

Editor's Note: The purpose of this column, which is published in Perspectives as space permits, is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of AHA members. Submissions are welcome; entries will be p...