Vol. 39, No.3, July 2010
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Welcome To Montréal
Bienvenue à Montréal! Founded on an island in the St. Lawrence River in 1642 by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, Montréal is one of Canada’s oldest cities.
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Notes from the Inside
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Welcome To Montréal
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Notes from the Inside
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From the HSS President
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News
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Member News
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Haskins Lecture
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“Lamarck at the Zoo”
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UTeach
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Lone Star
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Digital
Collections
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A Sampling of . . .
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Humanities Advocacy Day
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Humanities Enjoy Strong Student Demand
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Childcare Cooperative -
HSS Annual Meeting 2010
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HSS Annual Meeting 2010 Preliminary Program PDF
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University of Vienna
Announces Position
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Jobs, Conferences, Grants
HSS goes to Notre Dame.
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From the HSS President
Presidents come and go, and two years constitute a short time to effect lasting change.
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News
News from the History of Science.
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Member News
News from members of the History of Science Society.
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Siraisi Delivers Haskins Lecture
Since 1983 the highlight of the American Council of Learned Societies annual meetings has been the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, presented by an especially distinguished scholar nominated by one of the constituent societies, who is asked to address “A Life of Learning.”
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“Lamarck at the Zoo”
With a nod to Picasso, Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, introduced the third biennial History of Science Society Joseph H. Hazen Lecture.
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What UTeach and the Current Replication Initiative Mean for the History of Science
What part should the history of science play in science education? In particular, what part should it play in the education of science and mathematics teachers?
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Lone Star Historians of Science
The Lone Star History of Science Group held its twenty-third annual meeting on 26 March 2010 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The gathering was hosted by Professor Anthony Stranges of the A&M History Department, with help from Professor Ludy Benjamin of the Psychology Department.
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How to Equalize Access to Digital Collections
It is no news that scholars at major universities have better access to research materials than do their colleagues elsewhere. But lately, there has been growing concern that the imbalance is getting worse because of the way that digitized collections are being made available. It turns out that, in terms of equalizing access, digitization is a mixed bag.
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Jobs & Fellowships, Grants & Prizes, Lectures and Conferences, and Conferences & Colloquia.
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Humanities Advocacy Day 2010
On March 8 and 9, 2010, more than 200 college and university teachers, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, and independent scholars, gathered in Washington, D.C., for the 2010 national conference of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), of which the AHA is a member.
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Humanities Enjoy Strong Student Demand but Declining Conditions for Faculty: New Data Available on College and University Humanities Departments
The humanities continue to play a core role in higher education and student interest is strong, but to meet the demand, four-year colleges and universities are increasingly relying on a part-time, untenured workforce.
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Childcare Cooperative - History of Science Society Annual Meeting 2010
To address a much talked about need at HSS meetings, the Graduate and Early Career Caucus and Women’s Caucus of HSS are coordinating a childcare cooperative for the HSS Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, November 4–7.
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University of Vienna Announces Position
The Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna announces the immediate availability of a position in the rank of “University Assistant (Postdoc)” at the Department of History.
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History of Science Society Annual Meeting 2010 Preliminary Program
Download a PDF of thePreliminary Program for the Annual Meeting in Montreal.
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