All Articles
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Preparing Your Proposal for the 1998 Annual Meeting
September 1, 1996
Last year, Patrick Manning provided clear instructions for the preparation of AHA panel proposals in an essay entitled "Preparing Your Proposal for the 1997 Annual Meeting" (Perspectives, September 19...
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1997 Annual Meeting to Be Held In New York City
September 1, 1996
The 111th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in New York City at the New York Hilton and Towers and the Sheraton New York Hotels. Hotel reservation information is inclu...
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Every Man Should Do It! Teaching Women's History
July 1, 1996
This column in Perspectives is often about a teaching or classroom innovation that affects students. In this instance, however, it's about a novel experience for the teacher, one that made him rethink...
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Beyond Words: Reviewing Motion Pictures
May 1, 1996
"Are movies accurate from the standpoint of history?" That question, again. In order to buy time I cleared my throat, forgetting the yellow cough button, which glared with reproach. From behind a thic...
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To Feel a Part of History: Rethinking the U.S. History Survey
May 1, 1996
As the field of women's history emerged and evolved over the past three decades, scholars engaged in an ongoing debate about the influence of the new scholarship on the conventional narratives of Amer...
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Comment on Gendering the Survey Forum
May 1, 1996
The advances suggested by the foregoing papers in regard to dealing with gender in the history survey are most welcome. We've moved well beyond the stage where women's history was introduced, rather a...
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Discussions with Departments: Strategies and Opportunities for the Future
May 1, 1996
In the March issue of Perspectives this column described a number of issues that have emerged in AHA planning discussions as ones likely to affect many history departments in the near future. (Indeed,...
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Written about the Body: Gendering the Western Civilization Survey
May 1, 1996
A recent book review in Ms. magazine offered this commentary about Educating Ourselves: The College Woman's Handbook (1995): "This incredibly thorough guide to everything from study groups to financia...
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Active Learning in the University Classroom, or What I Learned from Elementary School Teachers
May 1, 1996
Even though I have been a history professor for nearly 16 years, I didn't really think seriously about history education, about how to teach history, until I spent 3 years (1990–93) as executive direc...
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And Now for Something Completely Different: Gendering the World History Survey
May 1, 1996
As a high school teacher in the 1970s, I was proud of myself for changing my world history classes beyond recognition. I altered their European orientation by "including"—as we then described it, desp...