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Letter to the Editor: Taking the Moral High Ground on Copyright
April 1, 1994
To the Editor: If the attitude toward copyright reflected in Sam Bass Warner's essay (Perspectives, December 1993) is widely shared in the historical profession, then scholarly publishing is in a lot ...
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In Memoriam, April 1994
April 1, 1994
Ted Bogacz United States Naval Academy history professor Ted Bogacz died suddenly due to complications from surgery on September 18, 1992, at the age of forty-nine, in Annapolis, Maryland. A native of...
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In the Beginning: A Model for Providing Historical Background
April 1, 1994
No matter where a history survey course begins, students seldom have enough background to understand the first unit in its historical context. This can present a formidable challenge to teachers of "m...
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University of Florida Develops a Model Program for Recruitment of Minority Scholars
April 1, 1994
Over the past seven years, the Department of History of the University of Florida (UF) has been educating itself about the role of minorities in the historical profession. What began in the mid-1980s ...
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1994 AHA Nominations
April 1, 1994
The Nominating Committee for 1994â95, chaired by Jere Bacharach, University of Washington, met in Washington, D.C., on February 10â12, and offers the following candidates for offices of the Associatio...
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Letter to the Editor: Nothing Irrational about Job Fears
April 1, 1994
To the Editor: In her article, "The Academic Marketplace and Affirmative Action," Professor Nell Irvin Painter (Perspectives, December 1993) misuses data, misrepresents facts, and makes scurrilous ass...
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Emerging Technologies in Document Delivery Services
April 1, 1994
Until the last quarter of the twentieth century the technologies used for delivering information were relatively static. Paper, bound in monographic or serial volumes, conveyed the printed word. Until...
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Gammon Steps Down as Executive Director, Gardner Named Acting Executive Director
April 1, 1994
On February 7, Samuel R. Gammon communicated to the Council his intention to retire as executive director of the American Historical Association. In his letter, Dr. Gammon, who had just recently celeb...
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Letters to the Editor: Reactions to the AHA's Cincinnati Decision
April 1, 1994
Every AHA Member Can Feel Proud To the Editor: We congratulate the AHA Council for moving the 1995 meeting away from Cincinnati. As a city officially hostile to gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, Cincinna...
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ASALH Conference Seeks to Enhance Empowerment
March 1, 1994
On October 20-24, 1993, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) held its seventy-eighth annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.