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Gammon Steps Down as Executive Director, Gardner Named Acting Executive Director
April 1, 1994
On February 7, Samuel R. Gammon communicated to the Council his intention to retire as executive director of the American Historical Association. In his letter, Dr. Gammon, who had just recently celeb...
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Letters to the Editor: Reactions to the AHA's Cincinnati Decision
April 1, 1994
Every AHA Member Can Feel Proud To the Editor: We congratulate the AHA Council for moving the 1995 meeting away from Cincinnati. As a city officially hostile to gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, Cincinna...
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ASALH Conference Seeks to Enhance Empowerment
March 1, 1994
On October 20-24, 1993, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) held its seventy-eighth annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Committee Issues Report on Redefining Historical Scholarship
March 1, 1994
Despite considerable differences in institutional missions and goals, most American colleges and universities agree on the basic criteria for faculty tenure and promotion decisions: the documentation ...
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Accessing the Archives of the Former Soviet Union
March 1, 1994
Until just recently, research in Russia for foreigners meant few real documents. Scholars had to rely solely on interviews and books in libraries, and both had to be viewed with some skepticism. Now, ...
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NCC Advocacy Update, March 1994
March 1, 1994
Assassinations Records Review Board Nominees Confirmed On February 10, the Senate voted to confirm the president's five nominees for the Assassinations Records Review Board—Henry Graff, professor emer...
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Spencer Crew Named Director of National Museum of American History
March 1, 1994
On January 21, 1994, Spencer Crew was appointed director of the National Museum of American History. Dr. Crew joined the Smithsonian in 1981, as a historian at the National Museum of American History....
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Historians and Hypertext: Is It More than Hype?
March 1, 1994
"[I]n ten years or so," D. H. Jonassen predicted more than ten years ago in The Technology of Text, "the book as we know it will be as obsolete as is movable type today." Jonassen is hardly the only t...
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The Immigrant Experience and Student-Centered Learning: An Oral History Video Project
March 1, 1994
In 1912, a young woman from Bratislava who wanted to see the world set out for Argentina. Upon her arrival, she found a position as a governess in one of the Italian households that formed an importan...
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1995 Annual Meeting Relocated to Chicago
March 1, 1994
The January 5–8, 1995, annual meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois, at the Chicago Hilton and Palmer House Hilton hotels. As members were informed in last month's issue (see Perspectives, Februar...