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Teaching as Scholarship, Scholarship as Teaching: A Case Study
Bringing scholarship and teaching together is an ideal, I should think, that most historians would subscribe to. But how might…
Contextualizing “Totalitarianism” in the Classroom
I understand "totalitarianism" not as a defined category of political analysis, but as a term that suggests a whole series…
Reviving the Teacher-Scholar Ideal
Most history instructors embrace the ideal of being a teacher-scholar. At the same time, those of us who lived through…
History Departments and the AHA
This year, once again, we have solicited information from history departments on "doing history" now and into the 21st century.…
Job Report 1997: Bleak Outlook for the History Job Market
Signs of difficulty in the job market for history Ph.D.’s can be found on both sides of the interview table.…
Precedents: The Job Crisis of the 1970s
The current sense of crisis in the job market pales when compared with the surfeit of history Ph.D.’s produced in…
Some Implications of Tenure for the Profession and Society
The advocates of tenure emphasize its contributions to professional excellence and the social quest for truth. These common benefits are…
East Meets West: Reflections on Teaching an American Past in the Former East Germany
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series about practicing history in a global context that will appear in…
Technology, Scholarship, and Politics: The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
There has recently been a rash of worrying stories about public libraries hurtling headlong into the digital age, casting books,…
Letters to the Editor, April 1997
Graduate Student Unions: Further Considerations To the Editor: Should Graduate Student Academic Employees (GSAEs) become unionized? In the January 1997…
Members, April 1997
Harriet Hyman Alonso (Fitchburg State Coll.) has been awarded the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize by the Eugene V. Debs Foundation…
NCC Advocacy Update, April 1997
Update on President Clinton's Fiscal 1998 Request for Cultural Agencies The president has requested $136 million for the National Endowment…
In Memoriam, April 1997
Benjamin A. Quarles Benjamin A. Quarles, one of the most distinguished historians of the black experience in the United States,…