Becoming an accomplished academic historian, as with a career in any field, is a stressful and burdensome process. The demands of an academic career come from many directions and the American Historic...

A life well led is almost always stoked by passion. Sometimes these passions are private pursuits, directed inward: reading, writing, gardening, listening to jazz. Other passions are more conspicuous,...

Proponents of the research/teaching divide, those who would relegate the former to universities and the latter to colleges, are in essence proposing that we staff our undergraduate institutions with w...

To the Editor: I am writing to say that I find the GI Roundtable materials to be invaluable. Your collection of hard-to-find pamphlets and publications is a goldmine for me, a researcher and presenter...

Fifty-year member of the AHA Very few scholars have the opportunity to pursue their academic passions for more than five decades in a variety of environments, while building friendships in both govern...

It is sometimes difficult to explain to students and colleagues why I continue to engage in academic research and writing 29 years into my teaching career at Sandia Preparatory School. To me, reading,...

Biographer of New Deal liberal Frank Murphy The line would start to form sometime around 12:30 every Wednesday afternoon during the academic year. At first there would be just two or three students, t...

Alfred M. Gollin, professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), was born on February 6, 1926, in New York City, and he died in Santa Barbara, California, on Oc...

Historians commonly use the World Wide Web to enhance their courses. In so many ways, the internet has moved us "into an era of abundance," as John McClymer points out in his insightful AHA Guide to T...

The AHA’s Committee on Women Historians has launched a new web page on the AHA’s web site to provide useful information on issues relating to women historians, gender equity, and so on. Gender equity ...