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  • In Memoriam: J.H. Hexter

    March 1, 1997

    J. H. “Jack” Hexter, emeritus professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis and at Yale University, who launched a major scholarly effort to chronicle the history of modern freedom, died ...

  • 1997 AHA Committee Structure

    March 1, 1997

    The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved committee structure for 1997. Council Joyce Appleby (Univ. of California at Los Angeles), president; Joseph C. Miller...

  • Civility: The Key Term for the Waning Years of Our Millennium

    February 1, 1997

    Are we experiencing a rash of surliness, a decline in respect, an escalation of violence, or the vanishing control of shame? The experts see a rising new curve of rudeness, while older sensibilities d...

  • Out of Its Shell: Internationalizing the Teaching of United States History

    February 1, 1997

    There are compelling reasons why American history should be taught within an international framework. As the United States developed from frontier outpost to immigrant receiver to world power, it was ...

  • 1996 AHA Awards Conferred at Annual Meeting in New York City

    February 1, 1997

    Awards for Scholarly Distinction In 1984 the Council of the AHA established an award entitled the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Nominees are senior historians of the...

  • NCC Advocacy Update, February 1997

    February 1, 1997

    National Archives' Electronic Records Policy Challenged On December 23, Public Citizen, joined by the AHA, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Library Association, filed a compla...

  • National Archives Implements Reorganization Plan

    February 1, 1997

    When the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued its strategic plan, Ready Access to Essential Evidence, in August 1996, the agency identified a number of initial actions needed to ...

  • The House the West Built: A Multimedia Presentation by Students in Western Civilization

    February 1, 1997

    I teach the honors section of the two-semester sequence in Western civilization for the history department and the University Honors Program at the University of South Dakota. Nearly all of the fine s...

  • Classified!

    February 1, 1997

    Washington is awash in classified documents.1 I won't repeat the dubious statistics about "how many pages of documents there are or how much it costs to keep the secrets they hold-suffice it to say th...

  • Exhibits with a Pulse

    February 1, 1997

    Contributing Editor's Note: The next generation of museum professionals will bring to their work vivid memories of provocative experiments in history museums that have resulted in well-publicized succ...