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Changes in the Offing for Civil War Sites
The National Park Service (NPS) is reevaluating how Civil War battle sites present history to the public, spurred by a…
AHA to Publish Membership Directory
At its January meeting, the AHA Council approved a proposal to publish an AHA membership directory as part of the…
With Darnton into Cyberspace: The AHR’s New Avatar
This year, after extensive preparation and negotiation, the American Historical Review will go online with complete electronic services for its…
Doing History on the Web: New Site Launched
DoHistory.org, a new web site for historians, teachers, and to all interested in history was launched on February 4, 2000,…
A Teaching Strategy: Teaching U.S. History Backwards
Contributing Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of columns about specific teaching experiences and strategies. The contributing…
Affiliated Societies, March 2000
Changes at the SILWCH The Society for International Labor and Working-Class History has instituted a series of changes at its…
Bruce Craig to Succeed Page Putnam Miller as the Director of NCCPH
The executive committee of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History has selected Bruce Craig (currently the chief…
NCC Advocacy Update, March 2000
News from the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History
Two Questions for Foner
To the Editor: I would like to question two statements Eric Foner makes in his inaugural essay in your January…
Broaden the Profession
To the Editor: For at least two years I (a part-time instructor, history PhD, and AHA member since 1995) have…
What Can the AHA Do?
To the Editor: According to the January 2000 Perspectives, the number of PhDs in history minted by American universities reached…
Fritz Fischer (1908-99)
Fritz Fischer, professor emeritus at Hamburg University and one of the most influential historians of modern Germany since 1945, died…
H. Stuart Hughes (1916-99)
H. Stuart Hughes, a leading scholar of European intellectual history and professor emeritus of history at the University of California…
Jacques L. Hymans (1937-99)
Jacques Lodewijk Hymans, a popular, longtime professor of history at California State University at San Francisco, died on December 29,…
George H. Mayer (1920-99)
George H. Mayer, who taught history for over 50 years, died suddenly on November 15, 1999. During his long career…
Herbert R. Southworth (1908-99)
Herbert Rutledge Southworth, a legendary book collector and for many years the intellectual scourge of General Franco’s dictatorship, died in…
Sylvia L. Thrupp (1903-97)
Sylvia L. Thrupp died on September 9, 1997, so long isolated by Alzheimer’s disease that friends and colleagues only recently…
Emily Rose Warner (1938-99)
On December 13, 1999, our profession lost a wonderful and beloved teacher and scholar when Emily Rose Warner passed away…
C. Vann Woodward (1908-99)
At the age of 91, C. Vann Woodward died on December 17, 1999, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. The…