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Teaching History the Old-Fashioned Way Through Biography
May 1, 1994
It is not uncommon for teachers of history to argue that our courses for first-year college students can be made appealing only if we talk about people. History is people, after all, and even great so...
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Member News, May 1994
May 1, 1994
Caroline Jean Acker, Carnegie Mellon Univ., has been awarded the first DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellowship in the history of 20th-century biomedical science and/or technology at the Stetten Museu...
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Divisions Work on Past Problems and Future Initiatives
May 1, 1994
Teaching Division The AHA's Teaching Division convened in Washington on March 19. The meeting's agenda covered a wide range of issues and activities, but of special note were developments in regard to...
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Community of Interest or Conflict on Capitol Hill?
May 1, 1994
What is the issue in the May 1993 dispute between the Library of Congress and several justices of the United States Supreme Court over the library's swift opening of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall...
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Letters to the Editor: The Job Market Crisis
May 1, 1994
"Lost Generation" Knows No Gender To the Editor: In her recent discussion of "The Academic Marketplace and Affirmative Action" (Perspectives, December 1993, page 7), historian Nell Irvin Painter sugge...
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From the 1994 Professional Division: Case Studies in Professional Ethics
May 1, 1994
The AHA's Professional Division has acted on twelve formal complaints and eight informal complaints or inquiries since the publication of its last report a year ago (Perspectives, May/June 1993, page ...
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National Park Service Theme Study in American Labor History
May 1, 1994
In cooperation with the National Park Service, the Newberry Library is undertaking a theme study in American labor history. The purpose of this study is to generate National Historic Landmark nominati...
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NCC Advocacy Update, May 1994
May 1, 1994
Selection of U.S. Archivist There is still no word from the Office of White House Personnel on the appointment of a U.S. archivist. However, Robert Hardesty, a consultant for the Lyndon Baines Johnson...
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Lewis Receives Pulitzer for Du Bois Biography
May 1, 1994
David Levering Lewis, who holds the Martin Luther King, Jr., chair in history at Rutgers University, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race. The much-prai...
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Redrawing Professional Boundaries to Revitalize History Education
May 1, 1994
Although critics regularly complain about the irrelevance of academic research or the isolating jargon of humanists and social scientists, university-based historians are, in fact, taking a greater in...