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  • Representations of History: Role-Playing Debates in College History Courses

    September 1, 1990

    Federalists and Antifederalists from around the nation debate the worth of the proposed United States Constitution and the meaning of the American Revolution in a Philadelphia tavern in 1787. An awake...

  • Letter to the Editor: Are Historians Uncivil?

    September 1, 1990

    Dear Editor, Roy Rosenzweig's provocative essay, "An Old Complaint Rekindled: Why Do We Read Papers at Historical Conventions?" (Viewpoints, p.20, May/June 1990 Perspectives) concentrated on presenter...

  • 1991 AHA Call for Papers

    September 1, 1990

    The 1991 annual meeting of the Association will be held in Chicago, December 27–30. The Program Committee welcomes proposals by all members of the Association, by scholars in related disciplines, and ...

  • Television's Civil War

    September 1, 1990

    Editor's note: In this month's Film and Media column historians review two completely different approaches to the Civil War era on film. Both productions are landmarks in reexamining the war from the ...

  • History Teaching Alliance Wins Humanities Challenge Grant

    September 1, 1990

    The History Teaching Alliance has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant of $225,000. Only forty-one Challenge Grants were awarded nationally by the NEH in this past gran...

  • Washington Notes, September 1990

    September 1, 1990

    The first issue of the 1990–91 academic year, like all September editions of this column, is a time for playing catch-up ball. Because of the preponderance of academic historians among our membership,...

  • 1990-91 AHA and Library of Congress J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship

    September 1, 1990

    The recipient of the thirteenth annual J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is Dr. Michael A. Morrison, Indiana University at Indianapolis. The fellowship is cosponsored annually by the ...

  • 1990 AHA Beveridge, Kraus, and Littleton-Griswold Research Grants

    September 1, 1990

    At its spring meeting, the Association's Research Division selected twenty-five AHA members to receive grants for further research in the history of the Western hemisphere. Previously, Beveridge grant...

  • An Old Complaint Renewed: Why Do We Read Papers at Historical Conventions?

    May 1, 1990

    Near the end of his important, recent history of the American historical profession, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Questions" and the American Historical Profession, Peter Novick offers a sardoni...

  • Women's Committee Celebrates Rose Report

    May 1, 1990

    The Committee on Women Historians held its regular spring meeting on March 25. The CWH dealt with issues concerning minority historians, future publications, and the twentieth anniversary of the Rose ...