This article reports that a five-year stretch of steady growth in the job market for academic historians is over. The number of job advertisements colleges have posted with the American Historical Association so far this academic year is down 15 percent from last year--the first decline since a slump that occurred in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. The…

In this article, the author profiles Drew Gilpin Faust, a career academic who has risen to the top job at Harvard University and has been named president of Harvard after six years as leader of its small Radcliffe Institute. Ms. Faust, who is 59, grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, raised by a father who bred Thoroughbred horses and a…

A report on the history job market reveals an increase in the number of faculty jobs advertised in the history association's magazine, "Perspectives" in 2005 even as the number of people earning doctorates in history is falling. However, historians are only cautiously optimistic about the healthier job prospects, and feel the trend may be…