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veteran volunteers demonstrating against policies like American involvement in Southeast Asia and in Central America which seem to hark back to the civil war days. The volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade would appear to have lost none of their idealism. William Murphy National Archives and Records Service FILM & HISTORY NEWS History Through Film Syllabi Needed for AHA Publication Project As noted in a previous issue, The American Historical Association (AHA) has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct a study of the use of film and telelvision materials in historical research and teaching. The project will result in a book on the subject and a new edition of the Association's pamphlet Teaching History With Film. To be successful such a project requires the assistance of teachers active in the field. Please send syllabi, discussion outlines, paper assignments, exam questions, and any other materials you might use in studying film and television with your classes to Project Director John O'Connor, c/o Film & History. You may rest assured that any of your ideas or experiences used will be fully credited in the forthcoming AHA publications. 71 Grant to Broaden Readership of Film & History Th e New Jer sey Departme nt of Higher Education has granted funds to support New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in a proj ect entitled "Movi ng- Image Technology and the His tory Clas sroom. " Th i s project is one of a series of more th an 100 ge nerated in r esponse to an energetic " Human i ties Gran t Program" i nitiated by the state. One use of the project' s grant funds will be as subsidy for 300 subscri ? t i ? ? s to Film & Hist ory for New Jersey history educato rs . Th ere are s evera 1 di me ? sions to th e over al 1 pr 0 j e c t which i ? key way s com pi ement the NEH-fu nded ? ro ject of the Ameri ca ? H i s t o r i cal A s s o c i a t ion d e s c r i b ed i ? an ear 1 i er issue o f Film & Histo ry . Do ris S her, C harl es Krant ? and John 0' Connor, c ol 1 ea gues in the Humani ties D epartm ent at NJIT, w ill be de vel op ing "cu r r i c u 1 um pa ckets" for e ight film/ te 1 e ? i s i o ? produ e t i ? ? s which will gather toget her the materia 1 s necess ary t o hel ? teach ers de vel op a more critical approac h to teac hing them. T he gf ant wi 11 als o fund the present ati on of a ser i e s of i ? - s e r ? i e e course s to N ew Jersey school s and col 1 eges. The in -serv ice co urses are in tended to hel ? te achers Ie arn h ow to a dopt approa ches w hi eh w ill both chai 1 en ge their stude nts and i ntr oduce them t o the basi c el ement s of visu al li teracy . The s u b s i d i ? e d one-ye ar subscri ptions to Film & Hist ory w ill be provi ded to the hi story departme nts a ? d 1 i b r an es of th e more than fifty col 1 ege s in the state , and t o a s el ecte d numb er of high school s The ed i tor woul d a pprec iate a ny ree ommend a t i ? ? s from Ne w Jersey reade rs or f rom a nyone fami 1 i ar wit h New Jersey school s w hi ch might b e ? e f i t from getti ng to know Film & Hi story . 72 ...

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