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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...

  • Council Considers New Directions and New Locations for the AHA

    March 1, 1994

    The AHA Council met on January 6, 7, and 9, 1994, on the margins of the Association's annual meeting in San Francisco. Normally the Council completes its work in two sessions, but this year it had to ...

  • 1994 AHA Committee Structure

    March 1, 1994

    The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved committee structure for 1994. Council Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago (president); John H. Coatsworth, Harvard ...

  • AHA Will Not Meet in Cincinnati

    February 1, 1994

    The AHA Council has concluded that it will not hold the Association's January 1995 annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, because of the recent referendum in that city that eliminates sexual orientation ...

  • Historic Places: Their Use as Teaching Tools

    February 1, 1994

    Virginia, the state in which I live, contains an abundance of historic places. Some, like Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier, are well known nationally. Others, such as Shenandoah Indian Mounds,...

  • NCC Advocacy Update, February 1994

    February 1, 1994

    GAO Report Finds Classification System Costs Billions In response to a request from the House Subcommittee on Information, the General Accounting Office (GAO) recently released the thirty-two-page rep...

  • Report of the 1993 Committee on Women Historians

    February 1, 1994

    The members of the Committee on Women Historians for 1993 included two who completed terms at the January 1994 meeting, Margaret L. Grimshaw and myself, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. I especially thank Margar...

  • New Department and New Premises for the National Archives of Ireland

    February 1, 1994

    When the current coalition government came into being in January 1993, the National Archives of Ireland was transferred from the Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) to the new Department of A...

  • AHA Issues Guidelines for the Preparation of Teachers of History

    February 1, 1994

    Introductory Statement The American Historical Association believes that the study of history is at the heart of liberal learning. Thus the preparation of history and social studies teachers is of cri...

  • 1994 Annual Meeting Highlights

    February 1, 1994

    Editor's Note: Despite a new date and a nationwide flu epidemic the 1994 annual meeting had almost 4,100 in attendance. As noted in the sidebar below, the site of the Association's next meeting, sched...