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  • Letter to the Editor: NAS Under Fire II

    May 1, 1990

    Dear Editor, I will not quibble about your carrying advertisements in Perspectives (February 1990, p. 17); after all, that revenue might keep dues from rising again. However, I must say I did not unde...

  • Letter to the Editor: A Case of Press Bashing?

    May 1, 1990

    Dear Editor, You are no doubt aware by now that this Press (University of Texas Press) has come in for some rather heavy bashing from our author Francis Nicosia and that the AHA has more than once len...

  • Foreign Relations, Public Relations, Accountability, and Understanding

    May 1, 1990

    When Warren Cohen submitted his resignation as chair of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, he did so because he felt that he was unable to meet his...

  • Pew Gives New Grant for Bill of Rights Education

    May 1, 1990

    We are extremely pleased to announce the receipt of a grant of $1.5 million from the Pew Charitable Trusts to establish a collaborative program to strengthen precollegiate education about the Bill of ...

  • Letter to the Editor: NAS Comes Under Fire

    May 1, 1990

    Dear Editor, Congratulations on the courage to accept the advertisement in Perspectives (February 1990, p. 17). I think the NAS (National Association of Scholars) is completely full of it, but they're...

  • Museum Exhibitions and Interpretation

    May 1, 1990

    Every year, the nation's history museums interpret America's past for millions of visitors. While well known institutions such as the National Museum of American History, Colonial Williamsburg, and th...

  • Resolution on Integrity of the FRUS Documentary History Volumes

    May 1, 1990

    Whereas, the Foreign Relations of the United States, has been published by the Department of State since 1861 and serves as a record of American foreign relations, as faithful as possible, given legit...

  • Teaching the French Revolution in the Core Curriculum

    May 1, 1990

    As I sat down to write this essay, a letter appeared in the Indianapolis Star lamenting the infantile world view of modern liberalism, the origins of which the writer traced to the teaching of Jean-Ja...

  • NCC News, May 1990

    May 1, 1990

    Copyright Legislation Introduced On March 14 Representative Robert Kastenmeier (D-WI) introduced H.R. 4263, a bill to amend the copyright law to clarify that the principle of fair use established for ...

  • Washington Notes, May 1990

    May 1, 1990

    The Association's Washington springtime is always hectic. March and April of each year see the convening of the three constitutionally established division committees, Professional, Research, and Teac...