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In Memoriam: Julius E. Thompson
April 1, 2008
Julius E. Thompson, professor of history and director of the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, died of complications after a serious head trauma on October 26, 2007. Bor...
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Barely Keeping Up? The 2007-08 Salary Report Suggests History Salaries Are Closing the Gap
May 1, 2008
History salaries almost kept pace with the rest of academia in the academic year just coming to an end, as the average salary for historians increased 4.33 percent, lagging just slightly behind the in...
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Conference Rules, 3: Everything You Need to Know about Your Role as a Commentator or Member of the Audience
October 1, 2008
Editor’s Note: The following is the third in a series of essays—derived from three articles that were previously published (in a slightly different order) in the Chronicle of Higher Education—that off...
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The Third International Seminar on Decolonization: A Report
October 1, 2008
To the 14 highly motivated scholars who gave up a part of their summer vacation to gather from around the world in Washington, D.C., for the third international seminar on decolonization, it was, in t...
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From Graduate School to Public History
December 1, 2008
Issues in Graduate Education: CGS Forum on Making the Transition to a Professional Career
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After 80 Years of Existence, Is the ICHS Still Relevant?
November 1, 2007
Editor's Note: The essay being re-published online here—with the permission of the author—originally appeared in the bilingual Information Bulletin of the International Congress of Historical Sciences...
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Showtime in Washington
November 1, 2007
Historians who travel to Washington primarily for research or other professional activities might not realize that the city has an active theater and classical music scene. Opera? The symphony? New pl...
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Rethinking the History MA Degree: The Community College Case
September 1, 2008
Since the PhD constitutes the highest degree awarded in history, professors traditionally have regarded the MA either as preparation for doctoral work, a continuing education degree that raises the ra...
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In Memoriam: Edward L. Dreyer
February 1, 2008
Edward L. Dreyer, professor of history at the University of Miami, died on June 29, 2007, from complications of pneumonia compounded by the belated discovery of esophageal cancer. Born in 1940 in San ...
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2007 Seminar on Decolonization: A Report
October 1, 2007
If evidence was required to demonstrate that historical analysis of "decolonization" is rapidly becoming an important theme—a subdiscipline, even—of modern historiography, all one needed to do was to ...