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News Briefs, January 2009
January 1, 2009
NCH Urges Incoming Administration to Reverse Secrecy Trend The National Coalition for History recently urged the incoming Barack Obama administration to reverse the secrecy trend of the last eight yea...
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What Do I Do and Where Do I Go From Here?
January 1, 2012
This essay focuses particularly on the mentoring problems and opportunities inherent in two-year, open-door institutions, where the diversity, economic concerns, preponderance of first generation stud...
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Join Your Fellow Historians at the 106th Annual Jackson Day Race!
November 1, 2012
Historians attending the 127th annual meeting are invited to participate in the 106th Annual Jackson Day Race on Sunday, January 6, 2013, starting at 8:30 a.m. The 9K (5.6 mile) race from Old Spanish ...
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Does Size Matter?
September 1, 2012
I was trained and began my career in the "long 1970s," back before monographs were nearly extinct, when great beasts still roamed the land. It was the Age of Big Books. Just about every important work...
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Decolonization Seminar Explores Old Topic in New Ways
September 1, 2006
Fifteen scholars from across the world gathered in Washington, D.C., recently to participate in a four-week seminar (held July 10–August 4, 2006), to explore a fascinating range of questions and issue...
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2013 AHA Election Results
December 1, 2013
President Jan E. Goldstein (Univ. of Chicago) President Elect Vicki Ruiz (Univ. of California, Irvine) Vice President, Professional Division Philippa Levine (Univ. of Texas at Austin) Councilor Profes...
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Chair of US State Department's Historical Advisory Committee Resigns in Protest
January 1, 2009
Wm. Roger Louis, the Kerr chair in English history and culture at the University of Texas at Austin and a former president of the AHA, resigned—on “a point of principle”—from the chairmanship of the U...
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ASALH Celebrates Black History Month
April 1, 2006
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, which was founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1915, celebrated Black History Month, with, among other events, a glittering, well-attende...
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In Memoriam: Joel Colton
November 1, 2011
Historian of France and Coauthor Textbook on Modern History Joel Colton, a distinguished historian of modern French and European history and professor emeritus at Duke University, died in Durham, N.C....
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Ethical Imperialism: A Conversation with Zachary Schrag
April 1, 2011
Over the past 15 years, a growing number of historians have wrestled with institutional review boards (IRBs). Initially developed to address abuses in the medical sciences, review boards slowly extend...