As many of you may have noticed, Perspectives has now become Perspectives on History. This is intended to be more than a nominal change. Not only will the new title more directly indicate the contents...

George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, announced on October 3, 2007, that it has been awarded a contract from the Department of Education, potentially worth up to $7.5 million, to create a Nati...

On February 4, 2008, President Bush sent his final budget proposal for fiscal year 2009 to Congress. Here is a summary of the proposed funding levels for programs of interest to the historical and arc...

Professor of Latin American studies; son of former Secretary of State At 95 years of age, John Watson Foster Dulles was the oldest teaching professor on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austi...

The proposed revisions to the AHA constitution were overwhelmingly approved by the membership, by a vote of 605 to 58. The revisions have been through a long process of consultation and review; after ...

Borrowing from the French model of the Action Thématique Programmée, the Research and Teaching Divisions of the AHA are initiating a wide-ranging, long-term project that will gather many U.S. and inte...

Issues in Graduate Education: CGS Forum on Making the Transition to a Professional Career

Editor's Note: The following essay originally appeared in the "First Person" column of the Careers section of the Chronicle of Higher Education of March 21, 2008. In view of the helpful advice contain...

To the Editor: I'm writing to express my appreciation for James W. Cortada's "Save the Books!" The article's discussion of how to prevent libraries from discarding books that might prove useful to fut...

Robert Isherwood died April 10, 2007, in Nashville, after a long illness. Born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, on April 18, 1935, he received an MA in 1959 and a PhD in 1964 from the University of Chicag...