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  • Members, May 1996

    May 1, 1996

    Rockefeller Archive Center Grants-in-Aid Among the 1996 recipients of the Rockefeller Archive Center Grants-in Aid for Research at the center in Tarrytown, N.Y., are the members listed below. Rima D. ...

  • Focus on Community Colleges

    May 1, 1996

    History teaching in community colleges has been receiving more attention within the profession in recent years. James Lorence (Univ. of Wisconsin Center at Marathon County) conducted a limited-sample ...

  • In Memoriam, May 1996

    May 1, 1996

    Merle Curti: A Remembrance Merle Eugene Curti, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a former president of the American Historical Associ...

  • In Memoriam, April 1996

    April 1, 1996

    William Osgood Aydelotte University of Iowa Professor William O. Aydelotte died on January 17, 1996, at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was 85. An authority on British parliamentary behavio...

  • Departments of History and Secondary Teacher Education

    April 1, 1996

    Over the past several years, job postings in the Employment Information section of Perspectives for social studies teacher-education/historian positions housed within history departments raised the qu...

  • AHA Deputy Executive Director Resigns

    April 1, 1996

    After a nine-month sabbatical leave, James B. Gardner, deputy executive director of the American Historical Association, has resigned to pursue other opportunities in historical agency administration....

  • NRC Study Offers Wealth of Data on PhD Programs

    April 1, 1996

    A massive new study by the National Research Council (NRC) provides a wealth of data on Ph.D. programs in the United States, including departmental rankings and comparative cross-disciplinary informat...

  • Survey Finds More PhDs, Less Success in Job Market

    April 1, 1996

    The growth of new history Ph.D.’s has accelerated according to a National Research Council (NRC) survey of 1994 PhD recipients. The 800 PhD’s produced in 1994 represent a sharp increase from 728 the y...

  • Report of the 1995 Committee on Minority Historians

    April 1, 1996

    The Committee on Minority Historians continues in its efforts to highlight issues of particular concern to minorities within the profession. The committee members during 1995 were Cynthia Blair (Harva...

  • Talking Teaching at the University of Georgia

    April 1, 1996

    Editor's Note: In January 1994 the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) launched a national project entitled "From Idea to Prototype: The Peer Review of Teaching" to encourage university fa...