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  • Letter to the Editor: Teaching A Kiss of Death?

    February 1, 1992

    Dear Editor, "Is Research the Whole Enchilada?" Sadly, the answer seems to be yes. A new emphasis on teaching is to be applauded. Yet quality teaching takes an enormous amount of time and energy. Grad...

  • In Minor Dramas Lurk Major Sagas

    February 1, 1992

    Everything changes in television, and nothing changes. New docudramas emerge every season, and every season they are attacked as sacrificing accuracy for the sake of entertainment. It is a complex pro...

  • Letter to the Editor: Presidential Libraries Another View

    February 1, 1992

    Dear Editor, "NCC News" in the October issue cites an evaluation of presidential libraries made by a "task force" of the National Academy of Public Administration. As summarized, the evaluation deplor...

  • Mr. Chips Goes to Jail: Teaching History in a Correctional Environment

    February 1, 1992

    In 1979, when I stepped behind the walls of Pontiac Correctional Center for the first time and walked across the courtyard and into the prison's school, I had no idea that I would remain as long as I ...

  • Letter to the Editor: In the Interest of Women

    February 1, 1992

    Dear Editor, We express our deep appreciation to Professors Barbara Harris and Gabrielle M. Spiegel for their thoughtful reflections on the many contributions of the late Dr. Catherine M. Prelinger to...

  • New Book on the Use of Copyrighted Material

    February 1, 1992

    The University of Georgia Press has published The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users' Rights, by L. Ray Patterson and Stanley W. Lindberg (Athens, GA, ISBN 0-8203-1347-5 hard cover; 0-8203-1362-9 pbk...

  • A New Court Decision on the Fair Use of Unpublished Material

    February 1, 1992

    As Page Putnam Miller reported in the January issue of Perspectives, on November 21, 1991, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decided a copyright case that may broaden the right of scholars to quote ...

  • Washington Notes, February 1992

    February 1, 1992

    A belated Happy 1992 to all our members and other readers, in this second issue of the calendar year. At the time this issue is prepared, your headquarters staff is still busy digging out from the ava...

  • 1991 AHA Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant Awards

    January 1, 1992

    The AHA's Research Division recently 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 bequest from Bernadot...

  • Biography and Autobiography in the Teaching of History and Social Studies

    January 1, 1992

    I have been using biography and autobiography to teach history at Case Western Reserve University for the past ten years. I regularly teach a class called "Biography as History: Twentieth-Century Worl...