> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:29:30 -0500
> From: H-DIPLO <hdiplo@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
> Subject: Re: AHA Panels
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> Date: 30 October 1997
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> From: Joyce Appleby <appleby@history.ucla.edu>
>
> [Moderator's Note: This is a cross-post from H-SHEAR, H-NET List for History
> of the Early American Republic]
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> I've yet to see the AHA program for this year (mail travels slowly the
> further west the riders get), but I did hear cries of outrage from a
> number of people whose sessions had been turned down. The AHA president
> does not have any say over the program which is not the case with the OAH
> president who selects the program chairs (mine were Maeva Marcus and Alan
> Brinkley). Since the nominating committee selects the program chairs for
> the AHA, I strongly urge that those who wish to see more political history
> sessions write members of the nominating committee. In fairness to the
> program committee chairs, it should be added that submissions largely
> shape the program. Cultural studies seem now to be overtaking social
> history topics. If contemporary politics have been a turn-off for the
> generation born after 1970, it shouldn't surprise us that there's
> been a declining interest in political history.
>
> Joyce Appleby, UCLA
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