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NCC Advocacy Update, March 1996
March 1, 1996
Update on Funding for Cultural Programs under Latest Continuing Resolution On January 26, just as the third continuing resolution expired, the Congress passed and the president signed the fourth conti...
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In Memoriam, April 1996
April 1, 1996
William Osgood Aydelotte University of Iowa Professor William O. Aydelotte died on January 17, 1996, at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was 85. An authority on British parliamentary behavio...
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Departments of History and Secondary Teacher Education
April 1, 1996
Over the past several years, job postings in the Employment Information section of Perspectives for social studies teacher-education/historian positions housed within history departments raised the qu...
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AHA Deputy Executive Director Resigns
April 1, 1996
After a nine-month sabbatical leave, James B. Gardner, deputy executive director of the American Historical Association, has resigned to pursue other opportunities in historical agency administration....
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NRC Study Offers Wealth of Data on PhD Programs
April 1, 1996
A massive new study by the National Research Council (NRC) provides a wealth of data on Ph.D. programs in the United States, including departmental rankings and comparative cross-disciplinary informat...
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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
March 1, 1996
Editor's Note: In January 1994 the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) launched a national project entitled "From Idea to Prototype: The Peer Review of Teaching" to encourage university fa...
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The University of North Texas and the Conference on the Teaching of History
May 1, 1996
Annually since 1979, with only two exceptions, the history department and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Texas have sponsored a Conference on the Teaching of History direc...
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The AHA and Historians at Community Colleges
May 1, 1996
Faculty at two-year colleges currently teach about one-half of all students enrolled in introductory history courses in the United States. However, only 181 of these historians are currently members o...
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Survey Finds More PhDs, Less Success in Job Market
April 1, 1996
The growth of new history Ph.D.’s has accelerated according to a National Research Council (NRC) survey of 1994 PhD recipients. The 800 PhD’s produced in 1994 represent a sharp increase from 728 the y...
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1996 AHA Program Committee Report
May 1, 1996
The 1996 AHA annual meeting was marked by extraordinarily good spirits in spite of—or perhaps because of—the dramatic blizzard that soon snowed us in. The Program Committee would, however, like to ass...