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California Academic Standards Commission Develops Standards for History-Social Science
A California commission on academic standards for K–12 students recently began work on the history curriculum and pledged to include…
Campaign Reform: Attack on Nonprofits Stalled for Now
Fears that the Campaign Reform and Election Integrity Act (H.R. 3485)—sponsored by Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.)—would significantly restrict the ability…
NAACP: A Historian at the Helm
"I want to make sure the NAACP is heard wherever race is discussed in the country, whether in the White…
National History Day to be Celebrated in June
Two thousand students in grades 6 through 12 will gather June 14–18, 1998, at the University of Maryland at College…
“Hisperanto”: Western Civilization in the Global Curriculum
Contributing Editor's Note: Teaching issues are being discussed by historians in an ever-growing number of settings including local and regional…
Connecting through Departments
Historians come in many forms and interests, situated in a variety of institutional settings (and often outside them, in the…
Is There a “Crisis” of History in France?
A recently published book raised the question of a coming crisis of history in France. But the notion was already…
School History Standards: Back to the Future?
We reprint below extracts from "The Study of History in Schools," a report presented in 1898 to the AHA by…
NCC Advocacy Update, May 1998
Bill Ferris Testifies before House Subcommittee On March 12, 1998, the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies of the House…
Fredrick Aandahl (1919-97)
Fredrick Aandahl died on December 25, 1997, at the age of 78, in Princeton, New Jersey, following a long illness.…
Henry Steele Commager (1902-98)
Although his name was often mispronounced and misspelled, probably no American historian of recent times was as widely known to…
John W. Hall (1916-97)
John W. Hall, A. Whitney Griswold professor of history emeritus at Yale University, died on October 21, 1997, at his…
John A. Phillips (1949-98)
John A. Phillips, professor of modern British history at the University of California at Riverside, died in an automobile accident…