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  • Thinking Historically in the Classroom: Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata

    October 1, 1995

    Students at El Camino Community College and California State University at Dominguez Hills reflect the multifaceted mosaic of contemporary American society. Both campuses are situated between the inne...

  • Mellon Foundation Announces that Journal Storage Project (JSTOR) Is Underway

    October 1, 1995

    The Mellon Foundation recently announced significant progress in its project to bitmap back issues of 10 journals in history and economics. These electronic images will be made available on line, on a...

  • The Present and Future of Historical Journals

    October 1, 1995

    Editor's Note: What follows is a revised version of remarks Professor Ransel made to introduce a roundtable at the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Montréal on August 30, 1995. Ne...

  • AHR Opens Home Page on World Wide Web

    October 1, 1995

    The American Historical Review now has a home in the World Wide Web. To see the AHR Web page, use Web browser software, such as Mosaic or Netscape (both available at no cost on the Internet), to open ...

  • National Science Foundation Update

    October 1, 1995

    On July 31 the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Independent Agencies Appropriation bill, which includes funding levels for fiscal 1996 for the Natio...

  • Thinking Historically in the Classroom: Allison Blakely

    October 1, 1995

    After more than 20 years of teaching, I have learned that each new class is an adventure with respect to historical thinking. I know, in the broadest terms, what I want students to gain: I want them t...

  • The Endangered Monograph

    October 1, 1995

    Editor's Note: The following observations are intended to accompany those of David Ransel, which appear on pages 5–6 of this issue of Perspectives. We hope that these two companion articles will promp...

  • Thinking Historically in the Classroom: Introduction

    October 1, 1995

    This month's Teaching Innovations column features a forum on a subject that is invariably woven into most everything we do that is classroom related: teaching students to think historically. Knowing t...

  • Focus on Atlanta: The Atlanta History Center and Atlanta Heritage Row

    October 1, 1995

    The Atlanta History Museum The Atlanta History Museum brings the story of Atlanta's past to life. Visitors to the museum, which is part of the Atlanta History Center, learn about how Atlanta grew to b...

  • Thinking Historically in the Classroom: David Trask

    October 1, 1995

    Too many students accept history as the study of "one damn thing after another." They seem to lack any analytical framework for sorting and analyzing the hum and buzz of daily events. For these studen...