Translating War
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History Salaries Show Further Improvement
Salaries for historians at colleges and universities rose faster than the rate of inflation for the third year in a…
Historic Pictures Go Online
Nearly 45,000 images from the famous photographic collection produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information…
PBS to Broadcast Documentary on Africans in America
PBS will broadcast October 19-22 a four-part television series entitled Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery. (Local timings may…
NASA and Jameson Fellowships Awarded
This year's J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship was awarded to Patrick J. Rael, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College. He received…
PhD Production Dropped Slightly in 1996
The production of history PhDs dipped slightly in 1996, according to the latest data from the National Research Council (NRC),…
Translating War: The Combat Film Genre and Saving Private Ryan
In late July 1998, Steven Spielberg landed on the American public with his World War II film Saving Private Ryan,…
Reaching beyond Historians: Scholars in Civil Society
In September this column focused on programmatic and professional collaborations built by a historians' umbrella organization to expand its reach.…
NCC Advocacy Update, October 1998
Nixon Tapes Cut Before Return to Family Following years of legal battles, a federal appeals court ruled this spring that…
Rethinking the Crusades
It may be a commonplace to say that interpretations of historical events often tell us as much about the historian's…
A Call for Anecdotes
Can you find the most crucial materials you want to use in teaching and research in digitized form? Is your…
U.S. History as a Model: Studying Like in the United States
A few months ago students throughout Germany went on the barricades to protest the conditions at their universities.* While some…
Asian Studies Scholars Meet in the Netherlands
The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), which met June 25–28, 1998, at the Leeuwenhorst Congress Centrum, Noordwijkerhout just outside…
History in the Community: Public History Team Research Seminars at UCSB
The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 helps spur passage of the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental…
Member Activities, October 1998
Editor's Note: The purpose of this occasional column is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of AHA members. Submissions are…