Council Barbara Weinstein (NYU), president; Gabrielle M. Spiegel (Johns Hopkins Univ.), president-elect; Linda K. Kerber (Univ. of Iowa), past president; Anthony Grafton (Princeton Univ.), vice presid...

To the Editor: I am dismayed to learn that the AHA Council approved the deletion of psychohistory as a specialty choice for our members. The recognition of the valence of emotions as a factor in histo...

On October 23, 2006, Lawrence W. Levine, American historian at the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University, Macarthur Fellow, past president of the Organization of American hi...

The Nominating Committee for 2007–08, chaired by Neil Foley (Univ. of Texas at Austin), met in Washington, D.C. on February 3–4 and offers the following candidates for offices of the Association that ...

AHA life member Ridgway F. Shinn Jr. died December 14, 2006, at age 84. He leaves his wife of 62 years, Clarice Wagner Shinn; his five children: Jenifer Tait, Ridge Shinn, Craig Shinn, Jeremy Shinn, a...

When I teach post-World War II U.S. history, I make it a point to build in discussion of federal finances and all the concomitant policy, economic, and cultural issues related to the growing national ...

At the AHA annual meeting in 1931, Carl Becker got a standing ovation for his presidential address, “Everyman His Own Historian.” It remains the most quoted speech in the AHA archive, and it is well w...

Hanns Gross, professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Chicago, died at the Luther Nursing Home in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on July 12, 2006, and was buried two days later in St. Paul Eve...

I have been co-teaching a course at the Harvard School of Education on “Teaching with Objects.” For the first session, we asked students to bring in an object that meant something to them. One student...

John Hope Franklin, 91, former AHA president (1979) and emeritus professor of history at Duke University, and Yu Ying-shih, 76, professor of history at Princeton University, have been named as the rec...