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  • On the Shoulders of Giants

    October 1, 1997

    Editor's Note: We are publishing this lecture (delivered at the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute in April 1996) as part of our series of occasional essays on and by eminent practitioners in the field wh...

  • High Stakes: The Future of Scholarly Communication

    October 1, 1997

    How will historians communicate the new knowledge they create? How will the primary source materials to which they seek access (visual, textual, statistical) be presented and controlled? How will stud...

  • Eviscerating a National Treasure

    October 1, 1997

    Nearly sixty years ago, when Americans were standing in lines to see Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious historical societies declared a...

  • Annual Meeting Job Register to Be Held at the Seattle Convention Center

    October 1, 1997

    The American Historical Association's annual Job Register provides institutions and candidates with facilities and administrative support for position interviewing during the AHA annual meeting. In ac...

  • Academic Job Opportunities Better than Expected in 1997

    October 1, 1997

    There was a solid if unspectacular increase in the number of academic job opportunities for new history Ph.D.'s last year, as departments replaced a growing number of retirees or simply added new facu...

  • 1998 Arrangements for Special Accessibility

    October 1, 1997

    To facilitate hotel reservations and participation in the meeting for those who need physical, sight, or hearing accessibility, the following information is provided. The hotel selected should be info...

  • NCC Advocacy Update, October 1997

    October 1, 1997

    Integrity of Foreign Relations Series Discussed at Confirmation Hearing of Assistant Secretary of State On July 24 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considered the nomination of James Rubin for t...

  • In Memoriam, October 1997

    October 1, 1997

    Jackson Holbrook Bailey Jackson Holbrook Bailey, professor emeritus of history at Earlham College, and one of the United States' most respected scholars of Japan, died at his home near Brattleboro, Ve...

  • AHA 1997-98 Grant and Fellowship Recipients

    October 1, 1997

    The American Historical Association is pleased to announce that the following candidates were selected from among many fine applicants to receive the AHA grants and fellowships for 1997-98. 1997 Littl...

  • Oliver Stone Session at the 1997 AHA Meeting

    October 1, 1997

    Oliver Stone's film, Nixon, was the subject of a panel at the 1997 AHA annual meeting in New York City. On Saturday evening, January 4, approximately 800 people crowded into one of the largest ballroo...