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Jack Blocker
History, Huron College, University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6G 1H3 Canada
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:01:34 GMT+2
From: Keith Tankard <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: NEWS: Chronicle story about new historical society
 
Cross-posted from  H-Net Announcements Editor <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
The Chronicle is holding an on-line colloquy this week that may
interest historians in H-NET. The article that fueled this question
and the responses that make up the colloquy are free to anyone with
access to the Web. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone
-- or any list editor -- who you think may be interested. (I have
already sent a message about this to the H-AMSTDY list specifically,
but have not notified any other list editors.)
 
THE CREATION OF A NEW HISTORY ASSOCIATION: THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
http://chronicle.com/colloquy/98/histsociety/histsociety.shtml
 
Do historians need an alternative professional association to the
American Historical Association and the Organization of American
Historians? Is the creation of the Historical Society -- led by
scholars such as Eugene D. Genovese and Donald Kagan -- a good addition
to academe?
 
Here is some more background:
 
Some historians have banded together to form a new professional
association, the Historical Society, to serve as an alternative to the
American Historical Association and the Organization of American
Historians. Leaders of the new group, such as  Eugene D. Genovese and
Donald Kagan, says its emphasis will be on research and ideas. They
blast the existing groups for historians for focusing too much on
current political issues and obsessing over issues such as race, class,
and gender. While leaders say that they want the group to be
ideologically diverse, many of its organizers are conservatives. Some
scholars -- including some liberal professors -- are welcoming the new
organization. Others see it as a new club for conservatives who are
hostile to recent trends in scholarship, and the increased diversity of
the professoriate. Is this new organization needed? Are the AHA and the
OAH less useful than they once were or could be? Should they be
reformed, replaced, or praised?
 
Best regards,
 
Lisa
 
 
Lisa Guernsey Asst. Editor,
Information Technology
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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http://chronicle.com/infotech/