All Articles
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Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery: A Review
April 1, 1999
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, a four-part documentary that originally aired on PBS in October 1998, traces the history of African Americans from the early colonial era throug...
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Educational Uses of Native American Historical Films and Videos
April 1, 1999
Educational goals are central to the emerging genre of indigenous documentary: Native Americans hope that through film and video they can present role models to the young and expose non-Indians to cul...
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Interpreting History on the Screen: An Interview with Terry George
April 1, 1999
When Peter Rollins submitted the review of A Bright Shining Lie (ABSL), he suggested that the director, Terry George, might want to respond to his comments. I communicated with George, and he agreed t...
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NCC Advocacy Update, March 1999
March 1, 1999
Copyright Extension Act Challenged On January 12 the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the Washington law firm of Hale and Dorr submitted on behalf of the Eldritch Pres...
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Letters to the Editor, March 1999
March 1, 1999
Electronic Publishing To the Editor: So Robert Darnton is going to solve the problem of unpublished dissertations by electronic dissemination ("Three Problems in Search of a Solution," Perspectives, F...
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Talking History as History Is Made: Historians and the Peace between Ecuador and Peru
March 1, 1999
There was a palpable feeling of excitement at the biannual Ecuadorian History Congress in Quito, November 23â27, 1998, and it wasn't only because of warnings that Pichincha, the massive volcano toweri...
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Annual Report of the Teaching Division
March 1, 1999
The Teaching Division (TD) has enjoyed a stimulating and productive year, launching a major new initiative in Kâ12 collaborative education as well as advancing a host of inherited projects. With help ...
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Planning a Graduate Student Conference
March 1, 1999
For the past three years, the Cold War History Group (COWHIG) of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), has hosted a graduate student conference featuring student presenters and faculty...
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The Political Economy of Preserving the Past: The Rio Blanco Mill in Mexico
March 1, 1999
The sprawling, architecturally elegant Rio Blanco textile mill can tell us many things about Mexico's past, only one of which is the famous blood-stained events of January 1909 when dozens of workers ...
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Doctoral Training in World History: The Northeastern University Experience
March 1, 1999
In an April 1992 article in Perspectives, I described a proposed PhD program focusing on world history.1 Seven years later, I am able to report that the program is in place, has 17 doctoral candidates...