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  • News from Affiliated Societies, December 1994

    December 1, 1994

    LBI Marks 40th Year with Reception at AHA Annual Meeting The New York Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) is launching its 40th anniversary year with a reception at the AHA's 1995 annual meeting that will featu...

  • Fetching up the Genii: Historians and the City

    December 1, 1994

    Chicago, according to Mark Twain, was "a city where they are always rubbing the lamp, and fetching up the genie, and contriving and achieving new impossibilities." Some of the magic has disappeared in...

  • 1994 AHA Election Results

    December 1, 1994

    Jere Bacharach (Univ. of Washington), chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 1994 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Association...

  • National History Standards Published

    December 1, 1994

    The National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) recently released national standards for history. Published in three volumes, these standards are intended to identify important understandings an...

  • NCC Advocacy Update, December 1994

    December 1, 1994

    Continued Classification of Records Causes Administration Embarrassment State Department legislation passed in 1991 and strongly supported by historians has put in place procedures that are working fo...

  • Interview Session to Be Held at 1995 Annual Meeting

    December 1, 1994

    For the fourth consecutive year, the AHA's Professional Division, together with the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession/Conference Group on Women's History, will offer a mock ...

  • 1994 AHA Endowment Donors

    December 1, 1994

    Richard P. Abels Theodore Lee Agnew, Jr. Marion Rice Andersen Joyce D. Appleby Lois A. Aroian Herbert Aptheker Elizabeth F. Arroyo Ivan Avakumovic Sharon A. Ayers James M. Banner Marie Lanser...

  • National Conversation Session at the 1995 Annual Meeting

    December 1, 1994

    The Association and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Sheldon Hackney will raise the contentious issue of American pluralism and identity in a panel at the annual meeting, which will be part...

  • For Appetizers: A Sampling of Chicago Restaurants

    December 1, 1994

    Chicago is a great town for food lovers. From inexpensive continental to pricey ethnic cuisine (and vice versa), the Second City is second to none. That's it for the usual cliches; here is one native ...

  • HTA/NHEN Update

    December 1, 1994

    Over the course of the past year, the National History Education Network (NHEN) has taken an active interest in federal education legislation, monitoring progress and reporting on those provisions lik...