All Articles
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Joint Task Force on Former Soviet and East European Archives Issues Final Report
September 1, 1995
With the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the international scholarly community welcomed the prospect that archives and libraries in Russia and the other newly independent states of the region would be fu...
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Letters to the Editor: Members Respond to the Cincinnati Decision
September 1, 1995
To the Editor: On page 1 of the May/June 1995 issue of Perspectives, AHA President John Coatsworth wrote, "I hope every member will contribute [to defray the Cincinnati costs], even those who had misg...
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Council for Basic Education Reviewing National History Standards
September 1, 1995
The Council for Basic Education (CBE) has established two independent panels to review the National Standards in United States and World History. The review will consider the major criticisms that hav...
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History of Science and Technology Support Retained
September 1, 1995
At the moment, the threat to the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) appears to have abated. Representatives of social science scholarl...
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Letters to the Editor: On Academic Freedom and Pedagogy
May 1, 1995
To the Editor: Professor A. Daniel Frankforter's article, "Conversations in Clio's Classroom: The AHA and the Assessment of Pedagogy," in the December 1994 issue of Perspectives heightened my concern ...
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Doing History in Public: Balancing Historical Fact with Public Meaning
May 1, 1995
The good news is that history and history museums are front-page headlines. The bad news is that the stories often focus on conflicts between scholars and the public or between "dispassionate outsider...
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AHA Council Approves Graduate Student Task Force
May 1, 1995
The Association's Membership Committee recommended to the AHA Council that an ad hoc task force be organized to investigate how the AHA serves its graduate student constituency. At its January meeting...
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Joining the Mainstream: Integrating Latin America into the Teaching of World History
May 1, 1995
After countless hours of labor, I have concluded that it appears almost foolhardy to try to cram all of Latin America into a world history course. The term Latin America is itself a misnomer: the area...
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The Cost of Doing Business
May 1, 1995
Editor's Note: The AHA has paid a total of $165,682.90 (including a small amount in legal fees) to settle damage claims made by five Cincinnati hotels after the Association cancelled plans to hold its...
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Report of the 1995 Program Committee
May 1, 1995
The 1995 AHA Program Committee was most pleased with the high quality of proposals that we received and with the enthusiastic cooperation of our colleagues both in the United States and abroad. Althou...