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Part-Time Faculty Surveys Highlight Disturbing Trends
A survey by the Coalition on the Academic Work Force (CAW), a consortium of 25 disciplinary societies concerned about the…
The Price of the Past: Preserving the Freedmen’s Bureau Papers
Librarian Jamie Murray is looking for a way to raise $910 so the Brazoria County Historical Museum in Angleton, Texas,…
News, October 2000
Jan de Vries Awarded Heineken Prize for History The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded the 2000 Dr. A.…
Affiliated Societies, October 2000
WHA Awards Its Second Annual Book Prize The World History Association awarded its second book prize at its annual meeting at…
NCC Advocacy Update, October 2000
News from the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History
Moscow’s Archives and the New History of the Communist Party of the United States
Historians of communism now have access to an enormous range of new sources, but the picture emerging is not at…
John A. DeNovo (1916-2000)
John A. DeNovo, retired professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, died at the age of 83 in Madison,…
Jürgen Heideking (1947-2000)
On March 10, 2000, the historical profession lost a learned, generous, and prolific colleague, Jürgen Heideking, a specialist in European…
W. Bruce Lincoln (1938-2000)
Early spring, 1965—Leningrad, U.S.S.R. A young American graduate student, from the University of Chicago on an IREX fellowship to prepare…
Megan Jean McClintock (1958-2000)
Megan Jean McClintock, history instructor at the University of Washington's Tacoma, Bothell, and Seattle campuses, died of cancer on June…