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Presents news with historical interest. Journals that have been entered into competition for the 1997 Nash Price; Schedule and venue of the Nineteenth Annual Mid-America Conference in 1997; Information about the first Symposium of the New England Regional World History Association (NERWHA) in 1997.

Presents some historical news that happen in different parts of the world in 1996. Announcement of the 1995-1996 Gerald D. Nash History Journal winners; Invitation on paper and session proposals for the Sixth International Conference of the World History Association; Fellowships for the teachers to study the constitution; Third Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era biennial competition.

Reports on the development in historians in the United States. Includes Gerald D. Nash'a award as Student History Journal Prize Winners; World War II Symposium; Meeting of the National Association of African-American Studies.

Announces various developments concerning the study of history as of September 1994. Includes a prize for the best student journal of history produced by a chapter of Phi Alpha Theta; Volume 6 of `The Upsilonian' journal produced by Upsilon-Upsilon Chapter of Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Ky.; Grants for travel and research at the Rockefeller Archive Center; Opportunities for international research collaboration.

Focuses on history as a special type of story. Record of the unfolding of God's divine plan for humanity; Good writing as a necessity for good history; Adoption of various modes of inquiry; History's narrative tradition; Relationship between substance and style; Success of the television series `The Civil War.'

Provides information on several United States organization's fellowships/scholarships and conferences regarding history. The global impact of 1492; Military history symposium; North American Labor History conference; Italian-American history grant; More.

Reports on the Rockefeller Archive Center's , a division of The Rockefeller University call for application for its 1996 program grants for travel to and research at the center. Deadline for application; Contact information.

Reports on the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc.'s call for papers and session proposals for its convention called `From Plessy to Brown: The World the Cases Created' (SCAASI) on February 15-17, 1996 in Tallahassee, Florida. Theme.

Announces the major exhibition on entitled `World War II: Personal Accounts-Pearl Harbor to V-J Day,' on May 6, 1995 during V-E day. Contact information.

Announces conferences of several organizations. Twenty-Eight International Congress on Medieval Studies; 1993 Lowell Conference on Industrial History; Fifteenth Annual Mid-America Conference on America; Eighteenth Annual European Studies Conference; Nineteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference; Availability of New York City court records in microfilm; Research and internship opportunities at the Kennedy Library; The Chico Historian.

Reports on James Jerome Hill Reference Library's call for number of grants up to $2,000 to support research in the papers of James J. and Louis W. Hill. Deadline for application; Contact information.

Reports on the Southern Conference on British Studies' (SCBS) call for proposals papers to be presented at its 1996 meeting, on October 30 to November 2, 1996 in Little Rock, Arkansas, in conjunction with the meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Theme.

Reports on the annual multidisciplinary conferences on the anniversary of World War II called `1936, World War II - The Preliminary Period' and `1946, World War II - The Aftermath,' on May 30 - 31, 1996 on the campus of Siena College.