Humanities Advocacy Day
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The 2005-06 Salary Report: History Still Lags, but Sees Modest Gains at Private Institutions
Salaries for historians in academia gained a little ground this past year—at least at private institutions—after lagging ever further behind…
Humanities Advocacy Day, 2006: A Report
An annual event organized by the National Humanities Alliance to promote awareness of and support for the humanities, the latest…
The Final Workshop of the Gutenberg-e Project
The Gutenberg-e Prize is a great way to start a career," Robert Darnton said while opening the latest workshop of…
Two Days in March: Historians and Humanities Advocacy Day
Humanities Advocacy Day is actually two days. Organized by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), of which the AHA is a…
Historians Raise Concerns about Smithsonian’s Deal with Showtime
Independent documentary filmmakers, historians, and others who make use of Smithsonian collections, archives, and staff expertise have raised concerns about…
News Briefs, May 2006
House Approves Clinton Birthplace Home as National Park Unit On March 8, 2006, by a vote of 409 to 12,…
Promoting Progress: An Interactive Workshop for Directors of Graduate Studies (and others interested in graduate education)
August 3–4, 2006, at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, Virginia (minutes by Metro from Washington, D.C.) Registration is open until July…
In Conversation with Ian Tyrrell
Wherever historians gather, the conversation often turns to a discussion of why there seems to be such a distance between…
Looking for a Federal Job? Some Practical Advice
In contrast to standard practices within the academic community, the sheer enormity of the federal bureaucracy makes the job application…
OHA Announces Extension of Deadline for Article Award
The Oral History Association has extended the nomination deadline for its honorific award to recognize a published article or essay…
CLGH Has New Chair
Karen Krahulik, associate dean of the College at Brown University, succeeded Leisa Meyers as the chair of the Committee on…
Congressional Seminar Features Foner and Franklin Seminar on Decolonization
Over the past few months, the National History Center has been gathering additional momentum, launching new programs while continuing older…
Outsourcing Style
To the Editor: Jerry Z. Muller laments that far too many history books suffer from "a yawning gap between the…
More on Style
To the Editor: Jerry Z. Muller rightly complains that academics write poorly (March 2006 Perspectives). He correctly prescribes using the…
Paul Avrich (1931-2006)
Paul Avrich died on February 16, 2006. He joined the Queens College faculty in 1961 and remained until his retirement…
Cecelia J. Dadian (1916-2006)
Cecelia Johanna Qually was born in 1916 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, but grew up in Racine. Both her father and a…
Richard P. McCormick (1916-2006)
Richard P. McCormick (1916–2006) reshaped our understanding of American political history, made a distinctive contribution to colonial history with a…
Morris Slavin (1913-2006)
Morris Slavin, professor emeritus at Youngstown State University, died in Denver on February 6, 2006, at the age of 92.…
Barbara Hadley Stein (1916-2005)
Barbara Hadley Stein, historian and bibliographer of Latin America and Iberia, whose career in the Luso-Hispanic world spanned seven decades,…