All Articles
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Letter to the Editor: A Different Mirror on Multicultural History
January 1, 1995
I read with interest the exchange between Ronald Takaki, George Fredrickson, and Robert Fullinwider in the October issue of Perspectives. For people concerned with making the teaching of American hist...
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Research Division and Standing Committees Assess Future Priorities
January 1, 1995
Research Division, November 5-6, 1994 The AHA's Research Division met the first weekend in November and, as usual, spent much of their time reviewing applications to one of the Association's small res...
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The Center for History in the Media: Three Years Later
January 1, 1995
In the January 1992 issue of Perspectives, I wrote an article announcing the establishment of the Center for History in the Media and providing the framework under which future work would proceed. The...
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Report of the AHA Nominating Committee, 1994
January 1, 1995
On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 1994 election for AHA offices. (Elected candidates are indicated with an asterisk.) Total Ballots Processed 3,642 Presi...
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Curating with the Community
January 1, 1995
In the late 1980s, the Chicago Historical Society, like many other cultural and educational institutions, embarked upon a journey of self-reflection to craft a new mission that responded to the needs ...
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Our Fellow Americans: The Place of Immigration in the US History Survey
January 1, 1995
Oscar Handlin once wrote that he set out to study the influence of immigrants in American history and discovered that immigrants are American history. As everyone knows, there has never been a time in...
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History and Computing: A Learned Society and a European Perspective
January 1, 1995
The development of computing in the humanities has been considerably advanced by the evolution of new mechanisms and institutions, which both increased awareness and provided a link between technology...
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New Funding Realities Necessitate Renewed Attention to Financial Support
January 1, 1995
This fall the steady rhythm of weekend meetings by AHA divisions and committees met a contrapuntal force, in the form of urgent gatherings of scholarly societies focused on suddenly altered funding re...
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AHA Welcomes New Staff Members
January 1, 1995
The AHA is pleased to welcome two new staff members.
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Workshop Offered for Graduate Credit at the 1995 Annual Meeting
December 1, 1994
On Sunday, January 8, the AHA Teaching Division and the World History Association will sponsor an all day workshop, "Legacies of the Second World War: Teaching about Germany and Japan," that will prov...