[From nobody Fri Apr 3 12:20:41 2026 Return-path: <owner-archives@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Received: from conversion-daemon.sms1.wright.edu by sms1.wright.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.09 (built Nov 18 2005)) id <0IUU00101CNDLC@sms1.wright.edu> (original mail from owner-archives@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:03:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from asg2.wright.edu (asg2.wright.edu [130.108.128.113]) by sms1.wright.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.09 (built Nov 18 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IUU001FFCOTFS@sms1.wright.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:03:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from avs1.wright.edu ([130.108.128.93]) by asg2.wright.edu (MailFrontier 4.5.3.7159) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:03:10 -0500 Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.avs1.wright.edu by avs1.wright.edu (PMDF V6.2-X27 #31165) id <0IUU00F01COI2P@avs1.wright.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:02:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from listserv.muohio.edu (listserv.muohio.edu [134.53.7.26]) by avs1.wright.edu (PMDF V6.2-X27 #31165) with ESMTP id <0IUU00AVECOI4S@avs1.wright.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:02:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from nasw2k01 (listserv.muohio.edu) by listserv.muohio.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.01D349F8@listserv.muohio.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:02:42 -0500 Received: by LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.3) with spool id 44588018 for ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:55 -0500 Received: from mulnx12.mcs.muohio.edu by listserv.muohio.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.01D349DB@listserv.muohio.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:54 -0500 Received: from mulnx24.mcs.muohio.edu (mulnx24.mcs.muohio.edu [134.53.6.11]) by mulnx12.mcs.muohio.edu (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k1HH0pER012393 for <archives@listserv.muohio.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:51 -0500 Received: from imo-m22.mail.aol.com (imo-m22.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.3]) by mulnx24.mcs.muohio.edu (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with SMTP id k1HH0o1n017776 for <archives@listserv.muohio.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:50 -0500 Received: from Maarja@aol.com by imo-m22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id 9.2d6.30bcaee (15887) for <archives@listserv.muohio.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from mblk-d37 (mblk-d37.mblk.aol.com [205.188.212.221]) by air-id08.mx.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP id MAILINID82-3e0f43f6013a145; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:42 -0500 Received: from 161.203.16.1 by mblk-d37.sysops.aol.com (205.188.212.221) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:42 -0500 From: maarja@AOL.COM Subject: Forwarding NCH Washington Update, 17 February 2006 Sender: Archives & Archivists <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Reply-to: maarja@AOL.COM Message-id: <8C801FAD1E51C7C-12B0-267E@mblk-d37.sysops.aol.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL WebMail 15106 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: list X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-MB-Message-Type: User X-AOL-IP: 205.188.212.221 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Real-ConnectIP: 64.12.137.3 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 134.53.6.11 X-Mlf-Threat: nothreat X-Mlf-Threat-Detailed: nothreat;none;none;none X-Mlf-UniqueId: 200602171703100011859 *********************************************************************** NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE (Vol. 12, #8; 17 February 2006) by Bruce Craig (editor) NATIONAL COALITION FOR HISTORY (NCH) Website at http://www.h-net.org/~nch/ *********************************************************************** 1. SENATE CLEARS WAY FOR ACTION ON PATRIOT ACT COMPROMISE 2. AHA PROTESTS DENIAL OF VISA TO HISTORIAN 3. NPS POSTS VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF 4. BITS AND BYTES: History Coalition Welcomes New Member Florida Council for the Social Studies; Congressional Academies Competition Announced; Digital History Workshop Announced; Presidential Sites Meeting Plans Set; Goodwin Wins Lincoln Prize 5. ARTICLES OF INTEREST: "Information is Power" (In These Times) 1. SENATE CLEARS WAY FOR ACTION ON PATRIOT ACT COMPROMISE On 16 February, by a vote of 93-3, the Senate cleared the way for an up or down vote later this month on the proposed renewal of the USA Patriot Act, a controversial anti-terrorism measure that includes provisions that especially worry librarians. Last week four Republican Senators - John Sununu (R-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Larry Craig (R-ID), who previously had joined in the threat to filibuster the House Conference Report on the Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act, announced that they had negotiated a "compromise" deal with the White House and could support the PATRIOT ACT reauthorization (S. 2271). Shortly after the compromise was announced, the American Library Association (ALA) issued a statement that it could not support the proposed agreement because of the lack of protections for individuals provided in the compromise. According to the ALA president, "It hardly seems constitutional that there is still no individualized suspicion requirement and that a recipient of a subpoena must wait a full year to challenge a gag order. We're glad to see that there is still a 4-year sunset provision for Section 215, which will allow oversight again in four years, but disappointed that the negotiators just did not go far enough." ALA Washington Office executive director Emily Sheketoff said of the compromise, "We appreciate the supporters from both sides of the aisle who tried to properly balance the civil liberties concerns. Unfortunately, the White House prevailed and the Senators who negotiated this bill were unable to address the very real concerns in Section 215 - the standard for its use and the ability to meaningfully challenge these orders in a court of law." The Senate has yet to address various procedural issues and appoint the members of a conference committee, actions that will take place prior to taking formal action on the legislation. Hill insiders report a final vote may well take place by the end of the month. Once the Senate acts on the bill a conference will be held with the House in an effort to reconcile the two different versions of the bill. The library community continues to take the lead in opposing certain sections of the compromise measure that, according to Sheketoff, makes "no appreciable improvement for library patron's privacy." In particular, librarians are concerned that requiring that recipients of secret government subpoenas keep silent about them for a year is unreasonable. The ALA suggests that lawmakers should require that the government show that a person whose records were sought indeed was connected to a terrorist suspect. The association also believes that the compromise bill does not make it clear whether traditional libraries would be exempt from receiving national security letters - documents that give the FBI wide latitude to demand library transactional records such as patron computer searches and e-mail. The ALA continues to call on Congress to pass the SAFE Act, which would help cure many of the problems that are left unfixed in the Patriot Act compromise proposal. Readers who wish to express their views to their senator may do so by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. 2. AHA PROTESTS DENIAL OF VISA TO HISTORIAN On 13 February 2006, the American Historical Association (AHA), a non-profit membership organization that represents professional historians, sent a letter to the Departments of State and Homeland Security expressing concern over the plight of Dr. Waskar Ari, a member of the Aymara indigenous people of Bolivia. Ari, who is also an authority on religious beliefs and political activism among indigenous Bolivians, has been prevented from taking up his post as assistant professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln because he has been placed on a list of individuals under "conspicuous revision" - that is, he is being subjected to extensive background checks due to alleged security concerns. The AHA is committed to fostering historical research and instruction unencumbered by government restrictions that could infringe on academic freedom and intellectual exchange. While recognizing that there may be individuals who pose a genuine security risk and for whom there are legitimate reasons to delay the granting of an H-1B visa, the association notes that in Dr. Ari's case that there are no perceptible grounds for such treatment. Under such circumstances, a fine scholar whose only apparent offense is his indigenous identity could be permanently excluded from U.S. academia. The AHA appealed to the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security to reconsider the decision to subject Dr. Ari to "conspicuous revision," and asked that he be granted the visa requested by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ari earned his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown University in the fall of 2004. He has served as a consultant on social and economic issues confronting the Aymara community with various organizations (the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank) in the Washington area, and has also been a visiting assistant professor at Western Michigan University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas. Upon completion of his doctoral degree, he was offered the position in History and Ethnic Studies at Nebraska, so that he could begin teaching in the fall of 2005. To read the letter in its entirety, please go to the AHA''s web site at http://www.historians.org/press 3. NPS POSTS VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF As regular readers of this publication are aware, we generally refrain from posting vacancy announcements for history/archives related positions in the federal government or elsewhere. Periodically though, there are positions that come to our attention that are of such importance to our professions that we violate our own policy. This is one such occasion. The National Park Service, a bureau of the federal government, has issued a vacancy announcement (NPS-WASO-06-007) seeking to fill a "Supervisory Historian" position. The individual selected will serve as the division chief of the National Register/National Historic Landmarks Division where they will serve as Chief of the National Register of Historic Places and will head the National Historic Landmarks division. The position is advertised as a GS-15 ($107-139,000) and the job will be filled at that level. Closing date for application is 14 April 2006. For the announcement go to: http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=39743751. 4. BITS AND BYTES Item #1 - History Coalition Welcomes New Member Florida Council for the Social Studies: The board of the National Coalition for History (NCH) is pleased to welcome the Florida Council for the Social Studies to the membership roster of the history coalition. The Florida Council for the Social Studies (F.C.S.S.) is committed to restoring social studies to "its rightful place among the other core, basic subject areas." The organization's thrust is grassroots advocacy in which volunteers in Florida's many counties contact legislators, work with affiliated groups, and speak out on the vital need for a revitalized civic mission in the public schools. For additional information about the organization, visit http://www/fcss.org/about.cfm . For information about how your organization can join the history coalition write to rbcraig@historycoalition.org . Item #2 - Congressional Academies Competition Announced: The Department of Education has announced a new competition for the Congressional Academies for Students of American History and Civics Program. The Congressional Academies Program supports the establishment of Congressional Academies for Students of American History and Civics for students to develop a broader and deeper understanding of these subject matters. The Congressional Academies Notice was published in the Federal Register at: <http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo .gov/2006/06-1077.htm>. The closing date for this competition is 7 April 2006. Applicants are required to submit their applications electronically using the Grants.gov <http://www.Grants.gov> site. Applicants can search and find the Application Package by using the CFDA: 84.215. The Application Package can be downloaded prior to registration with the website; however, please note that the registration process may take five or more business days, so applicants should start the registration process as soon as possible. For questions or additional information contact Kelly O'Donnell at the ED Academies Programs at (202) 205.5231 or by writing Academies@ed.gov <mailto:Academies@ed.gov>. Item # 3 - Digital History Workshop Announced: The Center for History and New Media's Echo project (http://echo.gmu.edu) invites scholars of the history of science, technology, and industry to apply to attend the second workshop on the theory and practice of digital history titled "Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology, and Industry" to be held 12-16 June 2006. Participants will explore the ways that digital technologies can facilitate the research, teaching, writing and presentation of history; genres of online history; website infrastructure and design; document digitization; the process of identifying and building online history audiences; and issues of copyright and preservation. The workshop, which is co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and the National History Center, will be held at George Mason University's Arlington campus, conveniently located in metropolitan Washington, DC. Thanks to support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, there will be no registration fee, and a limited number of fellowships are available to defray the costs of travel and lodging for graduate students and young scholars. As spaces are limited, please submit an application form by March 10, 2006 (available at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/1358/). For additional information contact Olivia Ryan at the Center for History and New Media at (202) 993-4528. Item #4 - Presidential Sites Meeting Plans Set: Registration is now open for the Presidential Sites and Libraries Conference IV presented by AASLH and hosted by the National Park Service, Roosevelt National Historic Site and the National Archives, FDR Presidential Library. The conference is scheduled for 19-22 June 2006 in Hyde Park, New York. The goal of this conference is to equip the decision makers of the sites associated with the American presidency to engage the connections inherent in the resources they administer, sustaining relevance as valued members of the national legacy of presidential sites and libraries. Featured speakers for the conference include Brian Lamb, Chairman and CEO of C-SPAN; Richard Norton Smith, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Dr. Spencer Crew, President of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Daniel P. Jordan, President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. To register or view preliminary agenda and logistical information, visit www.aaslh.org/pressites.htm or for questions, contact Bethany Hawkins at hawkins@aaslh.org or by phone at (617) 320-3203. Item #5 - Goodwin Wins Lincoln Prize: For her biography of the 16th president titled "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has won the 2006 Lincoln Prize. Administered annually by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College and endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the $50,000 Lincoln Prize is the nation's largest award in the field of American History. Ceremonies marking the 16th anniversary of the annual Lincoln Prize will take place at a dinner 6 April at the Union League Club in New York City. For more information about the prize, visit: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/pressroom/press_release_04.html 5. ARTICLES OF INTEREST One posting this week but boy is it an important one! In "Information is Power" Terry Allen writing in "In These Times" (9 February 2006) describes proposed federal regulations implementing aspects of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 that bar public access to birth and death certificates for 70 to 100 years. The potential impact of these regulations on historical and genealogical research and state and local archives is significant. Members of the advocacy committees of our member organizations are especially urged to read this article that may be found at: http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2488/ . ********************************* Who We Are... 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