The undergraduate course described attempts to help the student determine the contribution of historical study to an understanding of the present and to form a realistic concept of the future. (Author/KM)

Instant mass popularity of "Time on the Cross" as a technology-based re-evaluation of the slave system is traced; the furor it created in history and economics circles is described; and specific challenges which led to its demise as a credible document are related. (AV)

The treatment of ethnic minorities in Russian history survey textbooks is examined. (DE)

"Greater Expectations": A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College", a recently published national report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, calls for a radical restructuring of liberal arts education in American colleges and universities. Rather than defining liberal arts education in terms of…

States that because historical novelists who wish to create lifelike characters and situations must base their work on accurate and thorough research, historical fiction can and should be used as another way of interpreting the past. Urges the critical analysis of historical fiction to make authors accountable for their work. (LS)

Describes the problem of absence of evidence in historiography. Discusses the limits this lack of evidence poses for comparative studies by sociologists. Identifies steps in which events or evidence may be missed or passed over. Includes nonoccurrence, no surviving evidence, unlocated evidence, failure to note evidence, inaccurate criticism of…