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NEWSLETTER Robin Hightufl, Archivist Arthur L WORLD WAR TWO STUDIES ASSOCIATION (formerly American Committee on the History ofthe Second World War) Donald S. Detwiler. Chairman Marie P. Parillo, SecntIDry and Department ofHislory New,l.tt., Editor Southern Dlinois University Deparlnf<JII ofHisto", at Carbondale 108 Euenlu>wer HaJJ Cubondale, Dlinois 62901-4519 KtuUM StdU UniWl'sily ManhlJ/tlUl, Kansas 66506-1001 Permanent Directon 91J-5J1.QJU FAX91J-5J1-7oo4 Clwles F. Delzell p~ksu.edu ',\mderl>ilt University NEWSLETTER Robin Hightufl, Archivist Arthur L. Funk Departmell1ofHisto", Goinesville. Florida ISSN 0885-5668 108 Eu<nJJawer HaJJ X IlIUM Sta1~ UmvD'sity H. Stuart Hughes ManhanlUl, Kansas 66506-1001 University ofCalifornia, ISBN 0-89126-060-9 San Diego The WWTSA is affiliated with: Forrest C. Pogue Ammcan KmoriazJ Assodation MumlY. Kentucky 400 A Srre", s.£. Washington, D.C. 1OO0J Terms expiring 1996 Comil~ /nurnabonm d'/tlstout Dean C. Allard No. 55 Spring 1996 tU liz tUwdJm1luen4 IIfondiiIU Naval Historical Center HearyRousso, General SecflUJr 1nst1Ju1 d'hi.Jtoir. tIu temps prism Stephen E. Ambrose (Centre national de /Q recherch UniVersity ofNew Orleans sdentijiqut/CNRSD #, rut de l'Amiral Mouchet. David Kahn Contents 75014 PtUIs, France Great Neck, New York Richard H. Kohn University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill World War Two Studies Association Carol M. Petillo Boston CoUege General Infonnation 2 Ronald H. Speclot The Newsletter 2 George Washington University Annual Membership Dues 2 David F. Truk Washington, D.C. Annual Business Meeting 3 RobertWolli: National Archives News and Notes Toms expiring 1997 NARA Online Research Resource 4 James L. Collins, Jr. WWTSAonWWW 5 Middleburg, 'v\rginia WWTSA Panel at 1997 AHA Conference 5 John Lewis Gaddis Ohio University WWTSA Panel(s) at 1998 AHA Conference 6 Robin Higham K2nsas Slate University Membership Directory 6 WlUTC1\ F. KimbaU Rutgers Univer:sity. Newark NSA Documents Declassified 15 AJ1an R. MiUett Ohio Slate University CIA's Studies in Intelligence 21 Agnes P. Peterson Hoover Institution Archival Releases RusseU F. Weigley Accessions and Openings 35 Temple University .Declassifications 37 Roberta Woh1stetter Pan Heuristic. Recently Published Books in English on World War n 40 Janel Ziegler UCLA Selected titles from an electronic compilation by James Ehnnan Terms expiring 1998 Martin Blwnenson Washington, D.C. D'Ann CampbeU Austin Peay Slate University Slanley L. Fall< Alexandria, 'v\rginia EmestR.May Harvard University Dennis Showalter Colorado College Mark A Stoler University ofVermont Gerhard L. Weinbetg University ofNorth carolina at Chapel Hill Earl F. Ziemke University ofGeorgia \ General Information Established in 1967 "to promote historical research in the period of World War II in all its aspects," the World War Two Studies Association, whose original name was the American Committee on the History ofthe Second World War, is a private organization supported by the dues and donations of its members. It is affiliated with the American Historical Association, with the International Committee for the History of the Second World War, and with corresponding national committees in other countries, including the Arab Historians Association, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the Vatican. The World War Two Studies Association maintains a World Wide Web site at: http://h-net.msu.edul-war/wwtsal The Newsletter The WWTSA issues a semiannual newsletter, which is assigned International Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the Library of Congress. Back issues of the Newsletter are available from Robin Higham, WWTSA Archivist, through Sunflower University Press, 1531 Yuma (or Box 1009), Manhattan, KS 66502-4228. Please send information and suggestions for the Newsletter to: Mark Parillo Department of History Kansas State University Tel.: (913) 532-0374 Eisenhower Hall Fax: (913) 532-7004 Manhattan, KS 66506-1002 [email protected] Annual Membership Dues Membership is open to all who are interested in the era of the Second World War. Annual membership dues of$15.00 are payable at the beginning of each calendar year. Students with U.S. addresses may, if their circumstances require it, pay annual dues of$5.00 for up to six years. There is no surcharge for members abroad, but it is requested that dues be remitted directly to the secretary of the WWTSA (not through an agency or subscription service) in U.S. dollars. The Newsletter, which is mailed at bulk rates within the United States, will be sent by surface mail to foreign addresses unless special arrangements are made to cover the cost of airmail postage. Spring 1996 - 3 Report on the Annual Business Wolfe, National Archives and Record Meeting, 1996 Administration "T. V. Soong's Five-Year Economic The meeting of the WWTSA was Reconstruction Plan for Postwar convened at 5:00 p.m., Friday, 5 Jan. Guangdong," Emily M Hill, Coe 1996, in the Rockdale Room of the College Atlanta Hilton by the chairman, Donald "Agriculture in Japan: The United States S. Detwiler of Southern Illinois Occupation," Mark P. Parillo, Kansas University at Carbondale. The WWTSA State University secretary and newsletter editor, Mark P. Parillo ofKansas State University, The association chairman reported on presented the treasurer's report, noting the May 1995 conference on "America at that the treasury had been transferred to War, 1943-1945,'1 and on the editing for him by Robert Wolfe of the National publication of its proceedings, together Archives in 1995. His report was with those of the May 1993 conference accepted and Robert Wolfe's service as on the period 1941-43, by the director of secretary-treasurer from 1994 to early both, Robert Wolfe. 1995 was acknowledged with appreciation. Detwiler also reported on the quinquennial meeting and symposium on The newsletter editor announced that a the International Committee on the membership directory will be carried in History of the Second World War on 1 & the spring 1996 issue (No. 55). 2 Sept. 1995 in Montreal, and on the call for suggestions for the prgoram to be The organizer and chair of the annual held in Oslo in conjunction with the next academic session announced the meeting ofthe International Historical following panel being held the next Congress in 2000. morrung: Consideration was given to proposals "Military Occupations Resulting from for forthcoming annual meetings being World War II" held, in.......conjunction with the American Chair: Donald R. Whitnah, University of Historical Association in New York, 2-5 Northern Iowa Jan. 1997; in Seattle, 8-11 Jan. 1998; in "United States Treatment of Austria," Washington, D.C., 7-10 Jan. 1999; and Donald R. Whitnah in Chicago, 6-9 Jan. 2000. The chairman "A Revisionist View of the United States noted that, like other AHA-affiliated Occupation of Germany," Robert societies, we might hold several Spring 1996 - 4 academic sessions, apart from any that unprecedented access to NARA's vast might be approved as joint sessions with holdings; users with access to the the AHA. They could all be listed in the Internet can now search many AHA program as affiliated-society descriptions ofNARA's holdings online functions, like, for example, the for key words or topics and then can American Society of Church History's 20 retrieve digital copies of textual panels on pp. 24-28 ofthe AHA's 1996 documents, photographs, maps and program. sound recordings. Hypertext links connect series descriptions. At the chairman's request, Prof. Whitnah agreed to arrange with a NAIL contains a great deal of colleague the organization of an information about a wide variety of academic session for the 1997 meeting NARA's holdings. Initially focused on and Prof. Parillo agreed to organize the audiovisual material, NAIL contains program for the 1998 meeting. descriptions of2,500 still picture series and 20,000 still picture items; 85,000 The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 films and videotapes; and 8,500 sound p.m. recordings. Select sound files and about 1,000 photographs, many of them digitized in a partnership with the University ofNebraska Press, are online. News and Notes NAIL was developed in response to a customer survey undertaken in Nebraska NARA Online Research Resource in 1994. The study concluded that citizens want information about NARA's From a NARApress release. holdings and services online and wish to be able to access digital copies of The National Archives and Records selected documents online immediately. Administration (NARA) announces the new pilot online service, the Nara The study also pointed out the need for Archival Information Locator (NAIL) at NARA to present agency-wide http://www.nara.govlnaralnail.html. information to the public in an integrated manner. The NARA web site and NAIL NAIL, funded through the support of are the first steps in developing a Senator Bob Kerrey ofNebraska, is an nationwide information system for our online, interactive database available via federal and presidential holdings. Such the World Wide Web. It provides initiatives are an integral part ofNARA's Spring 1996 - 5 newly-developed strategic plan and will general information as well. revolutionize the way the NARA serves its customers. Visit the World War Two Studies Association homepage at Although NAil., contains more than http://h-net. msu. edu/~war/wwtsa/. 200,000 descriptions, it represents only a limited portion ofNARA's vast holdings. In a democracy the records that WWTSA Panel at the 1997 AHA constitute our archives belong to the Conference citizens. This initiative is an important first step to bringing the National The World War Two Studies Association Archives to citizens, no matter where will host a scholarly session in they are. conjunction with the 1997 American Historical Association conference in New For additional PRESS information, York. The association has requested a please contact the National Archives time slot for the panel of9:30 to 11 :30 Public Affairs staff at (202) 501-5525 or a.m.
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