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  • NCC Advocacy Update, February 1999

    February 1, 1999

    Court Petitioned to Grant Access to Alger Hiss Records On December 15 Public Citizen filed a petition in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York seeking an order releasing 50-year...

  • AHA Survey Indicates Growing Acceptance of Internet

    February 1, 1999

    Use of the Internet and World Wide Web has become an intrinsic part of the work of academic historians, according to an AHA survey of history departments in the United States and Canada. More than 75 ...

  • Affiliate News, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine

    February 1, 1999

    The speed of technological change in computing and electronic communication over the past few years has been nothing short of breathtaking. Seven years ago few outside of computer science had ever hea...

  • National Archives Expands Digital Classroom

    February 1, 1999

    Nearly three years ago, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) added a new pedagogical tool to its web site for the educational community. It was aptly named the Digital Classroom. Vi...

  • So That a Tree May Live: What the World Wide Web Can and Cannot Do for Historians

    February 1, 1999

    What impact will the World Wide Web have on the history profession? This question and many others stemming from the advent of new computer communication technologies are of growing concern to the hist...

  • Computers and the Practice of History: Where Are We? Where Are We Headed?

    February 1, 1999

    Exactly one year ago, Janice L. Reiff described the Internet and the World Wide Web in these pages as "the wave of the present," carrying historians toward an uncertain future.1 Shortly after Reiff's ...

  • Fax Me Everything You Have on the Civil War! A Look at Web Audiences in the Valley of the Shadow Project

    February 1, 1999

    In the popular movie Field of Dreams, the main character hears voices telling him "build it and they will come." At first, he is puzzled and wonders, build what? Finding the answer to this question is...

  • Three Problems in Search of a Solution

    February 1, 1999

    Three problems have intersected at the end of this century in a way that leaves historians feeling ambushed. The first began with an increase in the price of periodicals. They skyrocketed throughout t...

  • Have I Wasted My Summer on This Web Site?

    February 1, 1999

    Introduction Documents. Images. Downloads. Search engines. Java. Welcome to Web publishing and site design. To be sure, Web projects hold enormous promise for education. Many of us know this firsthand...

  • Training for What?

    February 1, 1999

    Welcome to "Issues in Graduate Education." The proliferating electronic discussion networks seem a likely medium for personal narratives, historiographical reviews, interviews, and reports about recen...