The AHA Professional Division sponsored an Open Forum on Disability on Friday, January 4, 2008. Anthony Grafton, the outgoing vice president of the division, announced that the AHA's Council had appro...

In 2006, a book was published entitled What Would the Founders Do? a play on words on the adage, "What Would Jesus Do?" The cover of the book shows Washington, Hamilton, Franklin and other Founding Fa...

Specialized in early modern France; president of Western Society for the Study of French History Ronald S. Love, a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century France, passed away suddenly on February 7, 2008...

By public law and its own tradition, the Historical Advisory Committee of the Department of State has two principal responsibilities. One is to oversee the preparation and timely publication of the Fo...

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the names of the scholars who have been awarded the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Fell...

National Archives Issues Founding Fathers Papers Report On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled "The Founders Online," to the Committees on...

Scholar of the Gilded Age and of Southern History John G. “Jack” Sproat, a distinguished American historian and classroom teacher, died on March 14, 2008, after a major stroke at the age of 86. Until ...

Historian of colonial Latin America; former vice president of the AHA's Professional Division John Jay TePaske (1929–2007), a leading scholar of colonial Latin America, died in Durham, North Carolina,...

In September 2006, the Drew University administration pronounced a death sentence on our doctoral program in history—but left open the possibility of a reprieve. The admission of new PhD students was ...

To the Editor: Robert Townsend’s latest report "Left Behind? Historians Lag in 2006–07 Salary Report" in the November 2007 Perspectives demands careful scrutiny, but Townsend and the AHA ought to star...