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We Have Seen the Future and It Needs Work
November 1, 1988
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of the AHA At its May 8–9, 1988, meeting, the Council of the AHA considered the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of the AHA and ordered its pub...
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Using the 1988 Job Register
November 1, 1988
In accordance with AHA policy supporting open listing of employment opportunities, the 1988 Annual Meeting Job Register facility in Cincinnati will be made as open as possible. The Job Register will b...
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HTA Director's Update
November 1, 1988
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education published a report based on its findings on student achievement in the United States. The report sparked efforts to reform school curricula a...
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Caminos Españoles en Florida
November 1, 1988
When Spanish sea captains returned from their global voyages in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, their first requirement was an accounting, not only to the Royal Treasury, but more importantly t...
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New HTA Director
November 1, 1988
Even before her official starting date of September 1, 1988, new HTA Director Jane Landers was "getting the ball rolling" on her new position by sending in a "Call for Proposals" to the October issue ...
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NCC News, November 1988
November 1, 1988
FY'89 Appropriations This year Congress succeeded in passing all the appropriations bills prior to the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1, thereby avoiding the confusion of an omnibus conti...
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Annual Meeting Highlights 1988: Cincinnati, Ohio
November 1, 1988
The theme for the 1988 meeting is "History as Inquiry and Practice," and the Program Committee has put together an impressive array of sessions that emphasize the many dimensions of the discipline. Th...
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Washington Notes, November 1988
November 1, 1988
The first of the three AHA divisional committees to meet this fall was the Research Division, which convened on the evening of September 22 in Washington and continued through most of the following da...
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In Memoriam, November 1988
November 1, 1988
John F. Benton John F. Benton, noted California Institute of Technology medieval historian, recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, and holder of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, died February...
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New AHA Executive Assistant and Convention Manager
November 1, 1988
Sharon K. Tune, formerly AHA administrative and editorial assistant, was promoted to executive assistant and convention manager, September 1, 1988. She succeeds Eileen Gaylard, who retired from that p...