All Articles
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Letters to the Editor: The Problem of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
September 1, 1995
To the Editor: Having taught between 1989 and 1993 as an adjunct in the City University of New York system, I'm pleased that so much of the May/June issue of Perspectives was devoted to articles on th...
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Call for Papers for 1997 Annual Meeting
September 1, 1995
The 1997 annual meeting of the Association will be held in New York City, January 2â5. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), from sch...
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Notable Achievements of Members, September 1995
September 1, 1995
Sylvia Berti (Univ. of Rome) has been selected to receive a Folger Shakespeare Library long-term residential fellowship for 1995â96. She plans to pursue her hypothesis that "early Enlightenment anti-C...
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Letters to the Editor: Should the AHA Meet in Georgia?
September 1, 1995
To the Editor: The juxtaposition of the two cover pieces in the latest issue of Perspectives was fascinating. The main article reports that the AHA paid $165,682 of its members' funds so that our last...
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Joint Task Force on Former Soviet and East European Archives Issues Final Report
September 1, 1995
With the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the international scholarly community welcomed the prospect that archives and libraries in Russia and the other newly independent states of the region would be fu...
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Letters to the Editor: Members Respond to the Cincinnati Decision
September 1, 1995
To the Editor: On page 1 of the May/June 1995 issue of Perspectives, AHA President John Coatsworth wrote, "I hope every member will contribute [to defray the Cincinnati costs], even those who had misg...
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Council for Basic Education Reviewing National History Standards
September 1, 1995
The Council for Basic Education (CBE) has established two independent panels to review the National Standards in United States and World History. The review will consider the major criticisms that hav...
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History of Science and Technology Support Retained
September 1, 1995
At the moment, the threat to the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) appears to have abated. Representatives of social science scholarl...
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Letters to the Editor: On Academic Freedom and Pedagogy
May 1, 1995
To the Editor: Professor A. Daniel Frankforter's article, "Conversations in Clio's Classroom: The AHA and the Assessment of Pedagogy," in the December 1994 issue of Perspectives heightened my concern ...
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Doing History in Public: Balancing Historical Fact with Public Meaning
May 1, 1995
The good news is that history and history museums are front-page headlines. The bad news is that the stories often focus on conflicts between scholars and the public or between "dispassionate outsider...