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Call for Proposals: The 1997 Annual Meeting of the AHA
May 1, 1995
The first deadline for proposals for panels for the 1997 AHA annual meeting, which will be in New York City, is October 27, 1995. The theme for the meeting will be "Human Rights"; panels need not fit ...
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Activities of the Committee on Women Historians
May 1, 1995
The Committee on Women Historians met in March and discussed: a session at the 1997 AHA annual meeting on theorizing gender in a global context. The proposed roundtable would focus on Africa, eastern...
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Perspectives to Feature Public History Column
May 1, 1995
Editor's Note: The staff of Perspectives is pleased to announce that the newsletter will feature a new column on public history. John David Smith of North Carolina State University and William Willing...
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Joint Committee on Historians and Archivists Issues Statement about Selection of U.S. Archivist
May 1, 1995
Editor's Note: On March 29 the Joint Committee on Historians and Archivists, which was established and appointed by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and th...
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AHA Council Endorses AAUP Report on Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
May 1, 1995
Editor's Note: At its January 1995 meeting the AHA Council, at the recommendation of the AHA Professional Division, endorsed the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) report, "The Statu...
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The Invisible Majority: Myths, Realities, and a Call for Action
May 1, 1995
An invisible majority holds 58 percent of all faculty appointments in American colleges and universities.[1] Essential as a low-cost means to grant leave to tenure-track faculty and increasingly numer...
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Letters to the Editor: Nationalism and Identity
May 1, 1995
To the Editor: Prompted by Liah Greenfield and Lloyd Kramer's opportune and stimulating exchange on pedagogical approaches to nationalism in the November 1994 issue of Perspectives, we would like to s...
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Letters to the Editor: Caribbean History by Caribbean Historians
May 1, 1995
To the Editor: Colin Palmer's article in the February 1995 issue of Perspectives correctly points out the need to tell Caribbean history "from the perspective of those who made it and lived it." He fo...
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CLAH Presents Awards at 1995 Annual Meeting
May 1, 1995
The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) held its annual conference in conjunction with the AHA on January 5â8, 1995. Some 130 members attended the CLAH luncheon, held at the Berghoff Restauran...
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Support the National Endowment for the Humanities
May 1, 1995
In early June the House Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies will decide whether to set aside money for fiscal 1996 for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Also in June, the Sena...