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Persian Gulf-Middle East Area Speakers List
April 1, 1991
The Council of the Association in December endorsed the concept of making use of the heightened interest among our fellow-citizens and students in the Persian Gulf, Near and Middle East to encourage e...
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In Memoriam, April 1991
April 1, 1991
Harold W. Bradley Harold W. Bradley, a retired Vanderbilt University professor and state legislator, died December 7, 1990, at the age of 86. Born in Greenwood, RI, Dr. Bradley received his B.A. and M...
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Computer Database Management for Historical Research and Writing
April 1, 1991
When Ronald Reagan was governor of California, he once suggested that all faculty members should be required to account for how they spent their time, in order to determine if they were spending it in...
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Bill of Rights Education Collaborative Awards over $400,000 in Grants
April 1, 1991
The Bill of Rights Education Collaborative (BREC) is pleased to announce the awarding of over $400,000 in regrants for projects designed to strengthen teaching and learning about constitutional rights...
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National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
April 1, 1991
Editor's Note: The following is the first of a planned series of articles on research in foreign archives. In future issues we hope not only to provide information on the research potential of these c...
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The Challenge of Historical Literacy
April 1, 1991
Growing concern with historical literacy and demonstrations of the power of literacy-like standards in actual school curricula form one of the striking currents in history education in recent years. T...
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Fundraising and Entrepreneurship: Confessions of a Historical Editor
April 1, 1991
Editors of historical documents do something which few other historians today do—combine scholarship with entrepreneurship. Historical editing, or the process of making significant historical document...
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Notable Achievements by Members, April 1991
April 1, 1991
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Fellows Rosemary Carroll, Coe Coll. Stanley Goldberg, National Museum of Amer. History Kenneth O'Reilly, U. of Alaska, Anchorage David Sheinin, U. of Toronto, Canad...
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History and the Perils of Pride
March 1, 1991
The statement of the Committee of Scholars in Defense of History, which appeared in Perspectives, October 1990, has been criticized on two grounds. Some believe that the statement opposes multicultura...
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The World outside the West: Course Sequence at Stanford University
March 1, 1991
In an increasingly interdependent, multinational, and multicultural world, familiarity with the background, concerns, and problems of societies other than those spawned from the Western tradition has ...