Prepare to be dazzled. San Diego in winter, bathed in warm sunshine and sheltered by the wild headland of Point Loma, is a visitor’s delight. Children and adults will find numerous attractions to fill...

The National History Center, an initiative of the American Historical Association, invites applications from historians (in the United States and abroad) at the beginning of their careers who are inte...

Longtime director of Wisconsin Veterans Museum Richard H. Zeitlin, historian and director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum for more than 25 years, died on December 3, 2008, after a short but courageou...

To the Editor: Two recent articles in Perspectives (December 2005 and November 2006) on using music in the classroom neglected to call readers' attention to two earlier, and perhaps groundbreaking, ar...

Noralee Frankel, AHA’s assistant director for women, minorities, and teaching, writes: On the suggestion of the AHA’s Graduate and Early Career Committee, the editorial board of Perspectives on Histor...

There have been some recent changes at the American Historical Review. Of course, the basic mission and content of the flagship journal of the AHA are unchanged. Our goal is to publish the most intere...

George Brown Tindall, Kenan Professor of History emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died December 2, 2006, in Chapel Hill at the age of 85. Tindall, who served as president o...

As a graduate student the last thing I worried about was immobility. Having chosen to study Latin American history, and then specifically Brazilian history, I did have to fret about securing funding a...

At its meetings in Atlanta on January 4 and 7, 2007 (during the 121st annual meeting), the AHA's Council reached the following decisions: Recommended (for approval at the Business Meeting) the reappo...

Archivists, historians, and librarians have for decades disagreed about the appropriate placement of archival education in the university. Whether archivists should be trained in history departments o...