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A membership newsletter of the Photo by Eileen Barroso
Historians and the Institutional Review Board From the OAH President Alice Kessler-Harris
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hy should you vote in the upcoming OAH election? One good reason is because the executive board of our organization makes decisions that can deeply influence your life, and you should want people holding office who care about you and know you care about them. This past week I spent a good deal of time drafting a response to a call by the Office of Human Research Protections (a division of the Department of Health and Human Services) for comments on its “Common Rule.” If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry; I didn’t either until my swift education of the past several weeks. It turns out that the rule (also known as the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects) is the framework that governs the Institutional Review Boards (irbs)
A fieldworker (left) interviews a subject as part of the Paterson New Jersey Folklife Project. (Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center.)
that oversee research projects in every institution that receives federal funding. Every university (and most colleges) in the country have an irb. Originally intended to monitor human-subjects research in the biomedical sciences, irbs were established in the 1990s to ensure that ethical lapses, such as the one that resulted in the Tuskegee experiment, did not again occur. Very quickly, the reign of the irb spread to the social sciences where it was believed that human subjects might be endangered by interview techniques that threatened mental health, imposed unacceptable levels of stress, or infringed on the privacy of subjects. In a process called “mission creep,” many irbs began to demand that everyone who wanted to talk to anyone else in the course of their research seek prior permission before doing so. Journalists quickly found a way to exclude themselves from these rules. So, briefly, did historians engaged in oral history. But then chaos set in. Five or six years ago, irbs started to insist that historians, too, submit plans to interview even a handful of idiosyncratically selected individuals for prior review. Claiming that they would simply exempt those proposals that did not fall under their aegis, the boards nevertheless expanded their purview. If you haven’t heard of any of this, you have been lucky. For several chaotic years, irbs have exercised what, in my view, seems like unwarranted influence
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over the research agendas of historians. Resentful professors have been asked to tell irbs who they want to interview and why. Assistant professors who have not asked for prior permission have been told they cannot publish articles on which they have worked for years. Graduate students have been told to alter the questions they want to ask. In an illustration of the treacherous slippery slope, irbs—claiming “information risk”—have suggested that archivists require researchers who want to access transcripts of interviews and data sets to acquire irb clearance first. When the possibility of changing this situation emerged over the summer months, your OAH Executive Board unanimously voted to take a position and make its voice heard. In consultation with the leadership of the American Historical Association and other historical organizations, we drafted a statement that will, we hope, help put an end to the runaway rule of the irb over historical research. Our statement, which you can access on the World Wide Web at http:// www.oah.org/about/papers/press_releases/ argues that the “common rule” does not and should not apply to historians who engage in idiosyncratic, nonsystematic research. So why should you vote in this year’s OAH election? Because next year, your elected board will be called upon to take another equally important step. If you want to be sure that you will have an active and engaged executive board to represent your interests, look for your ballot and vote when it arrives. ■ Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University.
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Meet Us in Milwaukee
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Downtown Milwaukee, the waterfront, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. (Photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons)
FROM THE OAH PRESIDENT
Historians and the Institutional Review Board Alice Kessler-Harris
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Meet Us in Milwaukee
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It’s My Misfortune and None of Your Own: Thoughts on Being a Cussedly Independent Academic Blogger Ann M. Little 3 Spotlight on the OAH/NPS Collaboration Aidan J. Smith
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FROM THE OAH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Volunteers Answer the Call for the OAH K atherine M. Finle y
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News of the Organization
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FROM THE ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES
Making Access Easier at the National Archives David S. Ferriero
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NATIONAL COALITION FOR HISTORY
Capitol Commentary Lee White
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he Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History (NCPH) invite you to the 2012 annual meeting in the beautiful lakefront city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy” is this year’s theme. The collaboration between the OAH and the NCPH, the variety of scholarly sessions, and the great location are sure to make the 2012 gathering the most dynamic annual meeting to date.
Learn and Network The 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting will feature more than 150 sessions on the latest U.S. history scholarship. Historians will lead nontraditional sessions with stimulating formats, including round tables, debates, and workshops. These sessions, especially those that focus on the meeting’s theme, will provide attendees with unique insight into contemporary problems. “The tension between capitalism and democracy is arguably the central issue of our time,” said Duke University historian and OAH/NCPH Program Committee Cochair Nancy MacLean. “We see it playing out in so many ways today: a global economic crisis which is accelerating the demise of welfare states in Europe and the United States, surging economic growth accompanied by continued political repression in China, and the way poverty and political aspirations combined to produce the revolutions in the Middle East.” Panels will address the changing role of evolving market systems, class relations, and migrations over the long chronological sweep of American history, and explore the frontiers of social imagination and territorial encounters that have shaped understandings of cultures and traditions. “We’ll have sessions that offer deep historical insight into all of this and get
us discussing questions that really matter,” MacLean said. Attendees will also have the chance to attend a variety of sessions, including those on teaching skills, digital history, and the Civil War. While immersed in sessions and events, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with colleagues and network with other scholars, teachers, and public historians. “Networking is one of the greatest benefits of attending the annual meeting,” said Katherine Finley, executive director of the OAH. “You can share recent research, talk about issues in your field, or just see old friends.” The meeting will also include exhibits from publishers of American history textbooks and other scholarly products, a silent auction, and a live broadcast of BackStory with the American History Guys, a weekly public radio program and podcast that applies historical perspective to current events. You will be able to watch and participate as the historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, and Peter Onuf explore the history of a recent headline while connecting the past with the present. “Using humor and quirky information, the BackStory guys spark deep recognition of how much history matters,” said MacLean. “You get a lot of rich substance in a playful conversational way.”
Save the date: April 18–22 For more information about the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting, visit http://www.annualmeeting.oah.org. The Hilton Milwaukee City Center and the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee are currently accepting reservations, and preregistration for the meeting begins December 1. “The annual meeting is not just fun, it’s a lifeline for scholarship and teaching,” said MacLean. “I always come home with new ideas and resources and new or deeper relationships that invigorate my work.” ■
It’s My Misfortune and None of Your Own: Thoughts on Being a Cussedly Independent Academic Blogger
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’ve blogged now for nearly four years at Historiann.com, a blog with the tag line “History and sexual politics, 1492– present,” but I have never been a “blog triumphalist”—that is, one who believes that blogs are fundamentally transformative of the media landscape and/or a medium that will ultimately supplant newspapers, cable television, and/or peerreviewed academic journals or books. Blogs can offer spaces where like-minded people can find each other and carry on conversations of interest to the community. However, I also know very well the limitations of the medium and its (many) pitfalls, as well as the positive role blogging can play in the historical profession and in one’s own career. While the technology for setting up blogs is free of charge, they require a significant investment in time and attention. Social media spaces must be moderated heavily for conversations to remain productive and to check potential abuse. Finding a like-minded online community is of special interest to two major subsets of my readers: fellow academics (irrespective of gender or sexual identity) and feminist Anglophone women—two groups that usually find themselves rather isolated. This community-building aspect of blogs is one of the things I’ve enjoyed most about Historiann.com, as it responds directly to contradictions in my own professional life as an eastern historian teaching and writing in the West, as a woman and a women’s historian in a male-dominated and still male-oriented profession, and as a feminist in a world that continues to regard sex equality as a radical political stance. Blogs can be wonderful places for academics to meet and converse about teaching, research, and issues that come up in our professional lives, but there are serious limitations to the kinds of conversations blogs can host. Blogs are not peer reviewed and are instead subject to the editorial whims of the proprietary blogger or bloggers (in the case of a group blog). In fact, peer review would work
against the strengths of the medium: freshness, timeliness, and a quick insight into how one writer sees an issue. But accordingly, blogs can’t have the authority or the gravitas of peer-reviewed journals, books, or other publications with an institutional imprimatur. As I like to remind my readers—on my blog, you get what you pay for, friends! For some of us—myself included—we like it just fine this way. We like the informality that blogs offer us as writers— some of us enjoy blogging from behind a pseudonymous identity, or we enjoy just playing with an online pseudonymous identity. For example, “Historiann” lives in a small town in Colorado and is a history professor at a large, public aggie, just like Ann Little. But, she’s a lot more playful and controversial than I believe Ann Little is in her teaching and writing for peer-reviewed publications. She also seems to have few domestic responsibilities beyond tending her (fictional) large animals, riding her (pretend) fences, and mucking out her (imaginary) barn. Historiann may initiate conversations about things that sometimes relate to Ann Little’s research and teaching interests, but more often Historiann’s blog posts and the conversations they initiate stray like blowing tumbleweeds far off the ranch of Ann Little’s professional expertise, although they’re usually related to Ann Little’s identity as a lifelong feminist. Occasionally, I am asked to join a group blog or to blog for a professional publication that accepts advertising. I always say no because I like running my own ranch. I don’t want to provide free content for publications that sell advertising, and I have questions about how monetizing a blog might end up changing the editorial content. But, I’m lucky—I’ve got a day job with tenure so I
don’t need to make money through blogging. I even have a very generous family member who designed and still looks after the technical details of my blog on server space he provides, so I’m happy to pass those savings on to my readers. Of course, as I teasingly remind my readers, you get what you pay for! ■ Ann M. Little is associate professor of history at Colorado State University where she specializes in the history of colonial America, and American women’s and gender history. Visit her blogger “ranch” at <http://www.historiann.com/>.
Favorite Blogs A handful of Historiann’s favorite sites Dude, Where’s my Tardis? http://tanyaroth.wordpress.com/ Frederick Douglass’s Women: In Progress http://leighfought.blogspot.com/ Kelly J. Baker, Historian of American Religion http://www.kellyjbaker.com/?page_id=14 Knitting Clio http://hmprescott.wordpress.com/ More or Less Bunk http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/ Religion in American History http://usreligion.blogspot.com/ Tenured Radical 3.0 http://chronicle.com/blognetwork /tenuredradical/ The Museum http://www.cluttermuseum.com/ The Way of Improvement Leads Home http://www.philipvickersfithian.com/
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Spotlight on the OAH/NPS Collaboration What’s New
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or more than fifteen years, the OAH has collaborated with the National Park Service Ameri on a variety of historical projects, including Histori original research, historiographical overviews, scholarly consultation and peer review of interpretive material, site visits, resource and theme studies, professional development seminars and conferences, and the creation of teaching materials. Through this collaboration, OAH members have an opportunity to apply their historical expertise to a public purpose: to build bridges between scholarship and a public audience and between the academy and the world of public history. Utilizing a wide range of projects, consultation, and network building, the OAH and the NPS are working together to help ensure that all visitors to national parks, national heritage areas, and national landmarks receive current, nuanced, and thought-provoking information about the nation’s past. Here is a look at some of the projects on which we've been working.
2012 National Underground Railroad Conference
The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, in collaboration with the OAH, seeks session and paper proposals for the 2012 National Underground Railroad Conference to be held in St. Augustine, Florida, June 20–23, 2012. The conference will explore resistance to slavery through escape and flight to and from the South, including through international flight to Spanish Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Indian Territory, and the transformation of cultural identity within descendent communities. Scholars from a variety of venues are welcome, including academic institutions at all levels; community organizations; museums and archives; living history and reenactment groups; performers/multimedia artists; independent researchers; and the National Park Service. The conference encourages proposals for papers, panels, workshops, posters, performances, and other nontraditional formats. More information is available at http://www.oah.org /programs/nps/2012ugrr/.
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OAH State of History in the Parks Study OAH members Anne Mitchell Whisnant, David Thelen, Gary B. Nash, and Marla R. Miller are completing a report assessing the state of history within the National Park Service. Over the last three years the team has surveyed staff at park units, visited interpretive sites, and interviewed administrators at parks and at NPS headquarters. Look for this important study and the team’s findings in January 2012.
Member Involvement This past summer OAH members participated in two site visits as part of OAH/NPS collaborative projects. In June, Seth C. Bruggeman and Charlene Mires visited Boston National Historical Park to advise and assist park staff in evaluating and developing the site’s historic significance and interpretive themes that guide how information at the park is presented. This visit focused on the Boston Freedom Trail; in 2012 another team of scholars will visit to focus on the Charlestown Navy Yard. In August, Marilynn S. Johnson, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Shirley Ann Moore visited the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park, which tells the story of wartime mobilization through the lens of Richmond, California— the home of the Kaiser Shipyards. The park is in the process of creating a series of interpretive films and exhibits for visitors, and Johnson, Lichtenstein and Moore joined park staff at the site to serve as peer reviewers and advisers. ■
In the past few months the OAH has begun a number of new projects with the National Park Service, including: American Latino National Historic Landmark Theme Study The OAH will assist the NPS in identifying and selecting historians who will complete a theme study to identify sites of significance in American Latino/a history. These historians will also assist in evaluating individual properties for National Historic Landmark designation eligibility. The National Park Service will use this theme study to assist with the broader interpretation of the American Latino experience at its nearly 400 national parks. In addition, the theme study will be used to assist in developing the National Museum of the American Latino, a project on which the National Park Service is a major cooperator. Teaching History and Civics in the Parks: Lincoln Historic Home In consultation with NPS staff at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the OAH will assist in developing curriculum materials and planning of teacher workshops emphasizing civic education at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. The OAH will also identify and assist in the selection of scholars who will participate in the workshops. Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Scholars Visit The NPS is preparing a general management plan for Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park. The plan must consider the park’s purpose, national significance, fundamental resources and values, and interpretive themes as a foundation for park planning. The OAH will assist in identifying and selecting scholars who will participate in a site visit at the park and in a review and discussion of the interpretive themes that will guide the general management plan. To learn more about our other 35 current projects, and our nearly 150 past projects, visit: http://www.oah.org/programs/nps/. For more information about the OAH/NPS collaboration or the OAH's commitment to public history, please contact Aidan J. Smith, OAH Public History Manager, at aidsmith@oah.org.
From the OAH Executive Director Katherine M. Finley
Volunteers Answer the Call for the OAH
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olunteers are the lifeblood of nonprofit organizations, and like any nonprofit the Organization of American Historians relies heavily on the time and energy of its unpaid volunteers. Unlike those who serve other nonprofit organizations, however, OAH volunteers provide vitally important work to enhance our service to members. Without the work of volunteers, the OAH would need to double its staff. Our volunteers bring their collective wisdom to the governance and direction of the organization, and their specific knowledge of history is invaluable to OAH projects. Volunteers also help us understand what members need and want from their professional society. Additionally, their expertise in American history is vital to ensuring the quality of the presentations at our annual meeting, in reviewing articles for publication in the Journal of American History, and in seeing that the awards given by the OAH recognize the best scholarship in the field. The OAH currently has 260 volunteers who serve on 40 committees and task forces. An additional 25 OAH members are elected to the Executive Board and the Nominating Board, and more than 400 individuals volunteer as OAH Distinguished Lecturers. The organization’s two editorial boards—for the Journal of American History and for the OAH Magazine of History—enjoy the service of 20 volunteers. We have a number of standing committees, service committees, ad hoc committees, and awards committees. The service committees include the International Committee; the Leadership Advisory Committee; the Membership Committee; the Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories; the Committee on National Park Service Collaboration; the Committee on PartTime, Adjunct, and Contingent Employment; the Committee on Public History; the Committee on Community Colleges; the Committee on Teaching; and the
Volunteers bring their collective wisdom to the governance and direction of the organization, and their knowledge is invaluable to OAH projects.
Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession. Individually, these committees help us meet the needs of specific segments of our membership and collectively they keep the profession vibrant and relevant. The OAH Annual Meeting Program Committee and Annual Meeting Local Resource Committee ensure we have an educational, highquality, and stimulating annual meeting. The many award and prize committees review hundreds of books and articles to promote excellence in historical
scholarship and teaching and to encourage young scholars to enter the profession. Volunteer appointments to OAH service committees and award and prize committees are open to members interested in improving the organization. The OAH national office will launch a call for volunteers in the spring, and I encourage you to answer that call and become an important part of your profession. Help keep our organization’s philanthropic tradition alive and do important work for the OAH. ■
News of the Organization Annual Meeting Registration Opens December 1
2012 OAH Election: Meet the Candidates
The 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting will take place April 18-22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Registration will open December 1. For more information, visit: http://annualmeeting.oah.org/.
Each fall, individual members of the Organization of American Historians cast their ballots in the annual OAH election using the slate of candidates prepared by the OAH Nominating Board. Watch your mailboxes this fall for a postcard announcing the opening of balloting as well as important information on how to access the online voting system. Until then, we invite you to familiarize yourself with this year's candidates. Meet the candidates online at: http://www.oah.org/about/elections /2012_biographies.html.
OAH Executive Board Issues Statement on IRBs In response to a Department of Health and Human Services request for comments on its “Common Rule,” the Executive Board of the OAH has unanimously agreed that the work of historians should be exempt from the purview of institutional review boards (IRBs). Read more online at: http:// oah.org/about/papers/press_releases/.
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From the Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero
Making Access Easier at the National Archives
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or many years, a visit to the National Archives meant standing in long lines, elbowing your way through crowds to view historic documents, or spending hours in reading rooms sorting through boxes of old documents or scrolling through frame after frame of microfilm. Not anymore. Now you can also visit us and do research from the palm of your hand with your smartphone. Smartphone applications take you right to our Web site, our blogs, our Facebook page, our Flickr or Foursquare locations, or to our materials on YouTube. Rapid advances in technology have increased the demand for digital content on our own site and through social media. This has made our mission—providing access to our holdings—more efficient, more effective, and a whole lot easier and fun! Let’s look at some examples. We are on Foursquare, a location-based app. Users can get tips and see relevant records when they “check in” at places around the country, drawing attention to our records from an audience who might not think that the holdings of the National Archives would interest them. For example, the U. S. presidential libraries recently launched on Foursquare, with facts and images about the thirteen most recent presidents and with “check in” opportunities across the country and beyond. Other image-based social media platforms such as Flickr and Tumblr encourage viewers to share interesting photographs from the National Archives holdings. Viewers can participate in crowdsharing by tagging the photographs in Flickr—for example, identifying Civil War ships or providing the names of people in the photograph. While waiting in line at the National Archives building to see the Charters of Freedom, visitors can pass the time by downloading the Document of the Day app to their phone, giving them access to a wide range of records every day of the year. They can also catch up on history by accessing past and current articles from our flagship publication, Prologue, 6 • November 2011 • OAH Outlook
on Scribd (http://www.scribd.com) using a smartphone. If you follow one of our Twitter feeds, you could see a shortened link that will take you to a featured record, event, video, new exhibit, or will give you a chance to ask an archivist using the #AskArchivists hash tag. Users can retweet or respond, passing the record around the social media universe. All of this new technology represents the cutting edge of what we are doing to broaden and deepen access to our holdings. Technology helps us do this job—through our Web site and social media tools—and it is the key to preserving records that are being created electronically today. Our principal means for preserving them is the Electronic Records Archives, which moves from the development stage to the full operational stage this fall. It will make the most important electronic records—2 to 3 percent of all those created now and in the future—accessible on the Internet and through Online Public Access. But many of the records that people come to the National Archives to see are not electronic—they are traditional paper records, and we have about 10 billion pages of them. So how do we make these records accessible? Digitization. This process is expensive and time consuming, so we are digitizing the most frequently requested records first. Through a series of partnerships with commercial entities, we are getting many records digitized in return for, in some cases, limited-time, fee-per-use access to the documents by the partner on its Web site. Eventually, these records will all be available free on our Web site, but without these partnerships, it would be impossible to scan these records ourselves. There are other ways we are providing access to records that garner high interest. Since we oversee the federal classification and declassification programs, we are increasing our focus on making sure agencies classify only material that needs to be classified and only for as long as need be. We are also stepping in to help resolve Freedom of Information Act
disputes between federal agencies and requesters. In our first year, we resolved four out of five of the cases that rose to the level of disputes. By the end of 2013, we will eliminate a backlog of about 400 million pages of unprocessed classified records. So far, we have streamlined the reviewing process and put a big dent in the backlog, evaluating about 14 million pages per month. And 91 percent of the pages reviewed are being declassified and going to the open shelves. The National Archives is working to increase your access to your records, whether for serious business or just enjoyment. ■ For more information on social media projects at the National Archives, visit: http://www.archives.gov/social-media/
A Limited Time Opportunity
to Reduce Taxes and Support the OAH
Are you aware that you can make a tax-free gift of a qualified retirement account to the Organization of American Historians? If you are age 70-½ or older and own an individual retirement account (IRA) or other type of qualified retirement plan, you may make a taxfree rollover gift to the Organization of American Historians. However, you must do so by December 31, 2011 as changes to the tax code will eliminate this opportunity. As you plan your end-of-year charitable contributions, please consider the OAH. For more information, please contact: Katherine M. Finley, OAH Executive Director, at (812) 855-9836 (direct) or e-mail: kmfinley@oah.org. More information may be found online at: http://www.oah.org/donate/
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ESEA Bill Passes with “WellRounded” Education Provision
Visit Documents Compass online: <http://documentscompass.org/>.
The 2012 OAH Community College Conference
On October 20, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) completed its markup of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The bill includes an amendment, offered by Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), which would create a “well-rounded” education fund. School districts could use the money to fund programs in history, civics education, social studies and eight other subject areas. The ESEA bill passed, and it included the Casey amendment, agreed to by voice vote. We thank the OAH members who responded to the alerts in October urging the HELP Committee to adopt the Casey amendment. It clearly made the difference.
IBM Chosen to Maintain Electronic Records Archives
The OAH is pleased to announce its sixth annual community college conference to be held June 14-16 at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. The three-day conference offers community college historians an excellent opportunity for professional development, networking, and an enjoyable break in the bustling state capital. For details, visit: http://cc.oah.org.
NHPRC Signs Agreement for Online Access to Founding Fathers Papers
Former National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy Dies
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Virginia (UVA) and its Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to provide prepublication access to historical papers of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington that have not yet been published in authoritative documentary editions. Documents Compass, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, affiliated with UVA, is carrying out this three-year, $2.5 million project.
On September 29, the National Archives and Records Administration announced that it has selected IBM to provide operations and maintenance of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system. This award represents the achievement of a goal established by the Archivist of the United States and is consistent with guidance from the Office of Management and Budget to conclude development of the ERA System by the end of September 2011. For more information, visit <http://www.archives.gov/era/>.
The National Park Service (NPS) has announced that former director Roger G. Kennedy passed away on September 30, 2011 at the age of 85. Kennedy, appointed by President Bill Clinton, served as director from June 1993 to March 1997. While in office, he presided over the creation of eight new parks and led the establishment of a NPS presence in the emerging domain of the World Wide Web. ■ The OAH is a member of the National Coalition for History. For more information, visit http://historycoalition.org
What members are saying about OAH Outlook . . . “ [I am] glad that an OAH print newsletter has reappeared.” —A.P. “ Many thanks for such a great OAH membership newsletter! I am one who likes to read something I can hold rather than something on the Web. The August 2011 edition is very attractive and well laid out. I especially like the gray background used for sidebars. It is so easy on the eyes. Glad the OAH Executive Board voted to resume a newsletter in print.” —K.M.
OAH Treasurer’s Report for Fiscal Year 2011 Jay S. Goodgold presents the report of the OAH Treasurer for the 2011 fiscal year (FY2011) ending June 30. The organization ended FY2011 in the black, with a surplus of $16,288. To read the complete report, visit: http://www.oah.org/about/papers/reports/
The Civil War at 150: Highlighting Scholarship from the OAH Archives For 150 years historians have analyzed the origins, progression, and impact of the American Civil War. During its sesquicentennial years we will present selected articles on the Civil War from the OAH Magazine of History, the Journal of American History, and its predecessor, the Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Visit: http://www.oah.org/programs /civilwar/from_the_archive/. ■
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