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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...