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  • AHA Council Decisions, January 2001

    March 1, 2001

    1. Approved the minutes of the May 6–7, 2000, Council meeting. 2. Approved applications for affiliation with the AHA from the American Association for History and Computing, American Society for Eight...

  • Letter to the Editor: On the Art of Reviewing

    March 1, 2001

    To the Editor: I appreciated Bruce Mazlish's article on the art of book reviewing (Perspectives, February 2001), for I have been the book review editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History for 1...

  • 115th Annual Meeting Awards and Honors

    March 1, 2001

    Awards for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established an award entitled the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year a nominating jury recommend...

  • 2001 AHA Committee Structure

    March 1, 2001

    Council Wm. Roger Louis (Univ. of Texas at Austin), president; Lynn Hunt (UCLA), president-elect; Eric Foner (Columbia Univ.), immediate past president; Barbara D. Metcalf (Univ. of California at Davi...

  • Research Director Appointed for the AHA Committee on Graduate Education

    March 1, 2001

    The AHA's Committee on Graduate Education (CGE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip M. Katz as research director. He brings experience as a historian and an administrator. He earned his P...

  • Letter to the Editor: Student Journals and History in the Classroom

    March 1, 2001

    To the Editor: I agree with Antonio Cantu on the importance of student writing (which he discusses in his September 2000 Perspectives article, "The Role of Journal Writing in Historical Thinking"). Du...

  • Sporting Event, Dental Appointment, or Shock Therapy? Reflections on the Job Register

    March 1, 2001

    Crowded into the holding pen that doubled as a waiting room for this year's Job Register at the annual meeting in Boston, I found myself reminiscing on my own experience as an ABD graduate student and...

  • National Center for History in Schools Publishes Four New Teaching Units

    March 1, 2001

    The National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA is announces the publication of 4 new teaching units. Each unit is based on primary sources, taken from government documents, artifacts, journals...

  • In Memoriam: Burton J. Williams

    February 1, 2001

    Burton J. Williams, professor and dean emeritus of Central Washington University and instructor of history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, died in his sleep on November 9, 2000, at his home i...

  • The Art of Reviewing

    February 1, 2001

    My title could as well be "The Job of Reviewing." For a large part of the professional duty of academics and other scholars is to review their colleagues' books, articles, and other written production...