All Articles
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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...
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AHA Council Approves Graduate Student Task Force
May 1, 1995
The Association's Membership Committee recommended to the AHA Council that an ad hoc task force be organized to investigate how the AHA serves its graduate student constituency. At its January meeting...
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Joining the Mainstream: Integrating Latin America into the Teaching of World History
May 1, 1995
After countless hours of labor, I have concluded that it appears almost foolhardy to try to cram all of Latin America into a world history course. The term Latin America is itself a misnomer: the area...
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The Cost of Doing Business
May 1, 1995
Editor's Note: The AHA has paid a total of $165,682.90 (including a small amount in legal fees) to settle damage claims made by five Cincinnati hotels after the Association cancelled plans to hold its...
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Report of the 1995 Program Committee
May 1, 1995
The 1995 AHA Program Committee was most pleased with the high quality of proposals that we received and with the enthusiastic cooperation of our colleagues both in the United States and abroad. Althou...
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From the 1995 Professional Division: Case Studies in Professional Ethics
May 1, 1995
Since the publication of its last report in the May/June 1994 issue of Perspectives, the AHA's Professional Division has acted on two formal complaints and fifteen informal complaints or inquiries. Tw...
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Further on the Margins: Graduate Students as Part-Time Teachers
May 1, 1995
In 1986 the National Education Association (NEA) adopted a policy resolution stating that part-time faculty should be employed only when an educational program requires specialized training or experti...
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H-Net and the Internationalization of Scholarship
May 1, 1995
In the four years since Don Mabry's exciting article about the internationalization of on-line discussions among historians appeared in Perspectives, the world of global cyberspace scholarship has gro...
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National Archives Record Groups to Archives II
May 1, 1995
Listed below are the National Archives record groups that will be moving between June and December 1995. Records are also moving within the downtown Washington National Archives building. Those moves ...
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18th International Congress of Historical Sciences to Meet in Montreal
May 1, 1995
The 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences will be held August 27 through September 3, 1995, in Montreal. The congress meets only once every five years, and this is only the second time in...