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From Chaos to Archives: The Records of the American Occupational Therapy Association
January 1, 1998
Modest archival collections are vulnerable to decisions born as much out of negligence as ill will. The transmission of certain pasts depends a great deal on chance acts and timely interventions, such...
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Scaffolding Research Skills in a Nonresearch Class
January 1, 1998
Designing, developing, and writing a good research paper takes a lot of skill, time, and practice. If students are not guided through the process and frequently assigned research papers, they have dif...
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Letters to the Editor: Gender and History
January 1, 1998
To the Editor: Upon scanning the program for the 112th annual meeting of the AHA I could not help observing that the word "gender" appears in the titles of at least fifteen sessions and the word "wome...
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Reaching beyond the AHA: Of Adjuncts and Other Issues
January 1, 1998
Planning discussions conducted by the AHA during 1995â96 identified a number of crucial issues that would affect the practice of history in the coming decades. Many such issues could be addressed at t...
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The Kunz Tenure Decision at Yale: "Utterly Inexplicable"
January 1, 1998
Eminent diplomatic historian Diane Kunz's two-year battle for tenure at Yale University came to an end in October, when a humanities Senior Appointments Committee rejected her appeal with a vote of ei...
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1997 Report of the Advisory Committee on Historical Documentation to the US Department of State
January 1, 1998
Editor's Note: We reprint here the full text of the recent, much-discussed report of the Advisory Committee on Historical Documentation to the U.S. Department of State. Warren F. Kimball (Rutgers Univ...
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Should We All Become Public Historians? Some Responses
January 1, 1998
Editor's Note: The March 1997 President's Desk column, "Should We All Become Public Historians?" by Joyce Appleby elicited several responses. Here we publish a selection. Dear Professor Appleby: Your ...
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AHA Issues Criteria for Standards in History/Social Studies/Social Sciences
January 1, 1998
The Criteria for Standards in History/Social Studies/Social Sciences and the Guidelines for the Preparation, Evaluation, and Selection of History Textbooks were approved by the AHA's Teaching Division...
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Fact, Fiction, and Film: Frankenheimer's George Wallace
January 1, 1998
When Ted Turner first approached John Frankenheimer about directing the Wallace docudrama for Turner Network Television, it seemed an odd choice. Frankenheimer, who began his career directing live tel...
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Letters to the Editor: "Minority" History
January 1, 1998
To the Editor: Kudos for featuring Patricia Nelson Limerick's "Has 'Minority' History Transformed the Historical Discourse?" in the November Perspectives. Indeed, too often, as she writes, "with our a...