As this issue is being prepared, the Federal City is even more schizoid than usual. The glorious weather that accompanied the inauguration of a new administration poured sunlight onto a more than ordi...

Controversy Continues over Status of National Security Council Electronic Records Editors Note: The February 1993 NCC Advocacy Update provides a full discussion of the January 6, 1993, opinion of Judg...

The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved committee structure for 1993. Council Louise A. Tilly, New School for Social Research (president); Thomas C. Holt, Un...

During 1992 the AHA Committee on Women Historians (CWH) continued our efforts to advance the status of the diversity of women in the profession. The members of the CWH for this year included Anna R. C...

"Finding Philadelphia's Past: Vision and Revisions." Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Permanent exhibition, opened December 1989. 5,000 sq. ft. Gary B. N...

Editor's Note: The 1992 Annual Meeting, the last of the Association's meetings to be held in December, was attended by 4,174—the largest attendance since the 1969 meeting held in Washington, D.C. The ...

Few people think of history as a "high-tech" discipline. Historians are commonly pictured as dusty souls rooting about in library stacks or in quaint archives, and struggling reluctantly with the trai...

Due to the complexity and independence of its local government bodies as well as the vagaries of Chicago politics in general, the city of Chicago has never had a municipal archives, a central facility...

During the past two years, filmmakers have rediscovered "Indians." A number of informative films and documentaries have been made about American Indians including Dances with Wolves, Ishi: The Last Ya...

As has been its custom for many years, the Association's governing Council met twice at the end of the year, on either side of the annual meeting. The Council, like the United States Senate, is a cont...