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National Archives Expands Digital Classroom
Nearly three years ago, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) added a new pedagogical tool to its web site…
AHA Survey Indicates Growing Acceptance of Internet
Use of the Internet and World Wide Web has become an intrinsic part of the work of academic historians, according…
New Technologies and the Practice of History Redux
Quite unexpectedly, this issue turned into a sequel to last year's special issue on the effect of the new information…
Three Problems in Search of a Solution
Three problems have intersected at the end of this century in a way that leaves historians feeling ambushed. The first…
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
The speed of technological change in computing and electronic communication over the past few years has been nothing short of…
NCC Advocacy Update, February 1999
Court Petitioned to Grant Access to Alger Hiss Records On December 15 Public Citizen filed a petition in the U.S. District…
The Challenge of Integration
Will the increasing use of computers in the classroom revolutionize education in the United States? In the short term, I…
So That a Tree May Live: What the World Wide Web Can and Cannot Do for Historians
What impact will the World Wide Web have on the history profession? This question and many others stemming from the…
Have I Wasted My Summer on This Web Site?
Introduction Documents. Images. Downloads. Search engines. Java. Welcome to Web publishing and site design. To be sure, Web projects hold…
Computers and the Practice of History: Where Are We? Where Are We Headed?
Exactly one year ago, Janice L. Reiff described the Internet and the World Wide Web in these pages as "the…
“Fax Me Everything You Have on the Civil War!” A Look at Web Audiences in the Valley of the Shadow Project
In the popular movie Field of Dreams, the main character hears voices telling him “build it and they will come.”…
How it Was …
When I first wandered into the AHA's Washington headquarters in January 1972, it was a veritable Luddite heaven located in…
Training for What?
Welcome to "Issues in Graduate Education." The proliferating electronic discussion networks seem a likely medium for personal narratives, historiographical reviews,…