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What’s in the History Survey? A Roundup of Reactions to the NAS Report
The discussion that follows is important to all historians: whether or not you teach U.S. history (or teach at all, for that matter), or work for a public institution, in Texas or elsewhere. This is...
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How the “bosses’-eye view” of History is Capturing National Headlines
Sunday’s New York Times has a story on the growing numbers of courses and research projects on the history of capitalism. The article highlights the creativity of a number of historians who have been...
View ArticleAHA Supports Visas for Cuban Scholars to Attend LASA Conference
The following letter was submitted to the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, in support to facilitate visas for Cuban scholars to attend the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)...
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Why History? A Note on the AHA Tuning Project
If you are at a university, the April issue of Perspectives on History probably arrived together with finals or midterms. Your time is even more precious than usual, and general reading is probably not...
View ArticleClimate, Politics, and History: What Can the 1600s Teach Us?
In “The Inevitable Climate Catastrophe,” Geoffrey Parker reminds us of how human history is linked to natural history, and of some historical dimensions of the hugely important contemporary debates...
View ArticleControversy Continues at the New York Public Library
The New York Public Library houses one of the great research collections in the world – especially, though certainly not exclusively, for historians. And as a public library, it has long been open to...
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Letters of a Historian: C. Vann Woodward’s Correspondence
The September 9 Chronicle of Higher Education carried brief excerpts from the newly published Letters of C. Vann Woodward (Yale Univ. Press). The letters cover over 70 years in the life of one of the...
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