Historians Talk Outreach and Ethics

The 119th annual gathering of the American Historical Association, held here from January 7 through January 9, saw more than 4,000 historians discuss and debate a wide-ranging agenda of professional and research-related issues.

The group's 2004 president, Jonathan D. Spence, devised a series of panels to focus the discipline's attention on the integrity of archives and on improving scholarly access to official collections. Mr. Spence, a professor of history at Yale University who

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