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Letters to the Editor: Classifying Greece
April 1, 1998
To the Editor: As a long-standing member of the AHA and as the liaison officer between the AHA and the Modern Greek Studies Association, I write in protest concerning one of the changes recently made ...
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Reaching beyond Historians: Scholars in Civil Society
October 1, 1998
In September this column focused on programmatic and professional collaborations built by a historians' umbrella organization to expand its reach. When the key issues are shaped by history research an...
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Virginia History Teacher Named Teacher of the Year
September 1, 1998
Philip Bigler, a history teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, was honored as the 1998 Teacher of the Year. In a ceremony at the White House o...
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Is There a "Crisis" of History in France?
May 1, 1998
A recently published book raised the question of a coming crisis of history in France. But the notion was already so controversial that the author made a point of putting quotation marks around the wo...
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Hospitable to the Big Inquiries
September 1, 1998
I'll try to respond to your inquiries, but in general rather than sequentially. I am an agnostic about the value of the new Association. Clearly it cannot replace—nor does it aspire to—the many profes...
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Interpreting Slavery in the Classroom and at Historic Sites
March 1, 1998
Editor's Note: We reprint below the text of a speech delivered at the conclusion of a two-day conference on interpretations of slavery, held at the Somerset Place State Historic Site (October 31–Novem...
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What to Do in Washington, D.C.
November 1, 1998
Editor's Note: The features on these pages, contributed by the Local Arrangements Committee for the 1999 annual meeting, list various sights and organized tours that participants can take in while the...
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Highly Politicized and Agenda-Driven
September 1, 1998
Thank you for your inquiry about my reaction to the launching of the Historical Society, about which I have been learning mainly via the net. So it is from this position of partial knowledge that I of...
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The African American Odyssey at the Library of Congress
April 1, 1998
The African American Odyssey, an exhibition chronicling black America's quest for full citizenship from the Revolutionary War to the 20th century, as well as the art, photography, businesses, and fami...
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Rethinking the Crusades
October 1, 1998
It may be a commonplace to say that interpretations of historical events often tell us as much about the historian's own era as about the age that is supposedly being described, but it is at best only...