All Articles
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Arnold Price Retires from the AHA
May 1, 1991
The month of February 1991 marked the retirement from the AHA of respected historian and long-time employee Dr. Arnold H. Price, bibliographer of the Writings on American History series. Dr. Price's d...
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A Look at Notebook II
May 1, 1991
Readers of Perspectives are probably aware that a package of computer programs called Notebook II Plus is being offered to AHA members at the reduced price of $179. This package includes the database ...
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Ulrich, Cohen Win Bancroft Prizes
May 1, 1991
The AHA is pleased to announce that Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, University of New Hampshire; and Lizabeth Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University, were awarded the 1991 Bancroft Prizes. Cohen received the prize...
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PBS's The American Experience
May 1, 1991
Editor's Note: The following listings contain information about programs that will air this fall on PBS's The American Experience television series. Many of these shows contain useful material for his...
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Introducing Undergraduates to Manuscript Research
May 1, 1991
For over twenty years the history department at Haverford College has required all undergraduate majors to take a junior year course called the Seminar on Evidence. In it they each undertake two inves...
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Learning from Hugo: Archaeology and Disaster Recovery
May 1, 1991
In the spring of 1990, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina Council for the Humanities, and Drayton Hall, a historic property owned and operated by the National Trust for Hist...
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Jameson Papers Project Matching Fund
May 1, 1991
In 1984 the J. Franklin Jameson Papers Project began to collect materials for a three-volume documentary history entitled John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America...
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There Is Another Way: United States History Texts and the Search for Alternatives
May 1, 1991
A score of U.S. history and social studies texts dominate the high school market; they constitute required reading for millions of young people from the upper elementary level to the twelfth grade. Th...
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Letters to the Editor: Trade Publishers Have Fiscal Appeal
May 1, 1991
Dear Editor, The article in your April 1991 issue by Helen Stephenson on university press contracts will be useful to your readers. But contracts to publish by authors with university presses essentia...
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Addendum: Persian Gulf-Middle East Area Speakers List
May 1, 1991
As members will recall from the April issue of Perspectives, the Association listed potential speakers with expertise in the Persian Gulf, Near and Middle East. In addition to the names of historians ...