34:5/ May-June 1996

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From the Director's Desk

• Discussions with Departments: Strategies and Opportunities for the Future
  by Sandria B. Freitag

Noteworthy

• Active Learning in the University Classroom, or What I Learned from Elementary School Teachers
  by Edward Berenson
  
  
• Focus on Community Colleges: Improving History Teaching and the Status of Historians
  by Charles A. Zappia
  
  
• Investment in Basic Research Pays Off for National Science Foundation
  
  
• MLA Reports Positive News for History Job Seekers
  
  
• The University of North Texas and the Conference on the Teaching of History
  by E. Coomes
  
  
• NEH Update from the National Humanities Alliance
  by John Hammer and Cuc Vu

Teaching Innovations Forum

Contributing Editor: Robert Blackey

Gendering the History Survey Course: Three Views

• To Feel a Part of History: Rethinking the U.S. History Survey
  by Kathi L. Kern
  
  
• Written About the Body: Gendering the Western Civilization Survey
  by Tracey Rizzo
  
  
• And Now for Something Completely Different: Gendering the World History Survey
  by Judith P. Zinsser
  
  
• Comment on Gendering the Survey Forum
  by Peter N. Stearns

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Robert Brent Toplin

• Beyond Words: Reviewing Motion Pictures
  by Mark C. Carnes

Archives and Research

• Russian Archives: Is the Door Half Open or Half Closed?
  by J. Arch Getty

AHA Activities

• AHA Thanks Cincinnati Fund Donors
  
  
• 1996 Committee Structure: Additional Appointments
  
  
• 1996 AHA Program Committee Report
  by Renate Bridenthal and Patrick Manning
  
  
• The AHA and Historians at Community Colleges
  by David Trask
  
  
• History Associations Take Stand against Political Interference in History Museums
  by Cary Carson
  
  

Members

In Memoriam

• Merle Curti
• Roderic H. Davison
• Mary Philip Trauth
• George Woodbridge

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller