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  • 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...

  • Highlights of the 1997 AHA Annual Meeting

    February 1, 1997

    The 111th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held January 2-5 in New York City, was marked by a number of firsts: the first time meeting attendance exceeded 4,500, the first time a...

  • In Memoriam, February 1997

    February 1, 1997

    Maxwell P. Schoenfeld Maxwell P. Schoenfeld, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, died at his home on August 2,1996, at the age of 60. After receiving his Ph.D. from Corn...

  • Report of the AHA Representative to the Social Science Research Council

    February 1, 1997

    Since the first board meeting that I attended as the AHA representative to the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the reorganization of the council and the reshaping of its funding priorities hav...

  • News from the National Science Foundation

    February 1, 1997

    New Funding Review Process Proposed for Education and Science Projects A task force at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has proposed new criteria for evaluating projects in science and education....

  • Advocacy and the Historian at Home

    January 1, 1997

    As reported in articles published in this newsletter in the past two months by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), the Coalition of Social Science Associations (COSSA), and the National Coordinati...

  • Teaching Historiography and Methodology: The Electronic French Revolution

    January 1, 1997

    Student 1: “As long as we are trapped in our minds, there will be no certainty.... Anything that we perceive must be perceived by our minds.” Student 2: “Your attack on absolute certainty reminds me o...

  • AHA Teaching Division Focused on a Variety of Areas in 1996

    January 1, 1997

    Pamphlets and Publications The division is actively promoting the development of materials on the teaching of teachers and on training graduate students in teaching. A pamphlet entitled "Why Study His...

  • In Favor of Unions for Graduate Students

    January 1, 1997

    Editor's Note: The Association solicited the following article hoping to stimulate further discussion. If you would like to write a letter to the editor or a short (four to five double-spaced pages) a...