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  • National History Education Network Begins Operation

    January 1, 1994

    The National History Education Network (NHEN) began operations on June 1. A coalition of over thirty organizations and agencies committed to improving the quality of history education, the network ser...

  • Historical Societies and the Teaching of U.S. Women's History

    January 1, 1994

    Baldwin, Noyes, Linsley, Putnam, Darling, Jerome, Barnes, and Foote are the names of some of the Connecticut families that settled New Haven, Hartford, and Old Saybrook, intermarried, founded Yale, we...

  • Washington Notes, January 1994

    January 1, 1994

    The month of November saw five important meetings, both external and internal to the AHA, in which headquarters staff participated. Early in the month the annual fall meeting of the American Council o...

  • Letter to the Editor: Film and History

    January 1, 1994

    To the Editor: In "Telling the Story: The Media, the Public, and American History" (Perspectives, October 1993, page 1) about the conference organized by the New England Foundation for the Humanities ...

  • Clio's Handmaiden: The Historian and the Coin Cabinet

    January 1, 1994

    Every historian uses the ancillary sciences of history to get at the sources: A basic sense of bibliography is needed just to use a library; the biographer soon learns to use the tools of the genealog...

  • Report of the AHA Nominating Committee, 1993

    January 1, 1994

    On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to report the results of the 1993 election for AHA offices. (Elected candidates are indicated with an asterisk.) Total Ballots Processed 3,709 Presi...

  • 1993 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant Winners

    January 1, 1994

    At its November 1993 meeting, the AHA's Research Division announced awards made to support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Funds for the grant program come from the earnings of a ...

  • National Archives Opens Archives II

    January 1, 1994

    This month the new National Archives facility, informally known as Archives II, will open to researchers and the public in College Park, Maryland. More than one million cubic feet of records are being...

  • NCC Advocacy Update, January 1994

    January 1, 1994

    Agencies Respond to Government Management Initiatives As a part of broad "reinventing government" initiatives, the Congress passed the Government Performance and Results Act, and President Clinton iss...

  • Nominations Sought for 1994 AHA Candidates

    January 1, 1994

    Dear AHA Members: I am writing to you in my capacity as chair of the 1994 Nominating Committee. Each year the AHA through Perspectives calls upon members to submit names of potential candidates for AH...