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  • Ordinary Germans: Notes on the Reception of Hitler's Willing Executioners in Germany

    March 1, 1998

    Stamp collectors and even ordinary people will have already realized this, but for two or three years now, on German postage stamps, it's not the old-fashioned "Deutsche Bundespost" any longer—it's ju...

  • A Rare Opportunity to Create the Ideal Electronic Environment

    March 1, 1998

    We face a unique moment in history: the chance to work positively and proactively for the right electronic environment in which to create, disseminate, and use new knowledge. This may be the first tim...

  • 1998 Annual Meeting Highlights

    March 1, 1998

    The 112th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held January 8–11, 1998, in Seattle, continued a string of successful meetings with over 3,600 in attendance. Moreover, with 158 "offic...

  • Professional Identities and the AHA

    March 1, 1998

    I doubt that I am alone, among those who have assumed the responsibilities of this office in searching for words to represent the dignity of the Association and respond adequately to the abilities, en...

  • 1998 Committee Structure

    March 1, 1998

    The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved committee structure for 1998. Council Joseph C. Miller (Univ. of Virginia), president; Robert Darnton (Princeton Univ...

  • First Robert Kelley Memorial Award Conferred on Page Putnam Miller

    March 1, 1998

    The National Council on Public History (NCPH) conferred the first Robert Kelley Memorial Award on Page Putnam Miller. The award was established to perpetuate the legacy and memory of one of the pionee...

  • Titanic: Did the Maker of True Lies Tell the Truth about History?

    March 1, 1998

    In preparation for an appearance on the History Channel last November, I sat in the Walter Reade Theatre in New York, waiting to watch a screening of Titanic for the press and the television industry....

  • NCC Advocacy Update, March 1998

    March 1, 1998

    Appeals Court Rules on Opening of Grand Jury Records On December 15, 1997, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City ruled in the case of Bruce Craig v. United States ...

  • Digital Future Coalition Seeks Support for New Intellectual Property Legislation

    March 1, 1998

    The Digital Future Coalition (DFC), a collaboration between many of the nation's leading nonprofit educational, scholarly, library, and consumer groups and major commercial trade associations, has cal...

  • Becoming a Historian: The 1997 Lincoln Prize Acceptance Speech

    March 1, 1998

    Editor's Note: This is the second article in a new series on and by eminent practitioners of history; the first was the 1996 Lincoln Prize acceptance speech of David Herbert Donald. We had already sch...