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AHA monthly mag. focuses on film

Film is a main focus in the March 2008 issue of Perspectives on History. James Sheehan contributes the third installment of the “Film and History” series with his article on “Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion.” Then, read about Secrecy, “a new film by Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss about government classification debates,” that was featured at the January 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Also, hear about the Historians Film Committee and their panel, “Wars of the Worlds: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond: Science in Film, Television, and History," at the Annual Meeting. And finally, also Annual Meeting-related, take a look back at the 2008 AHA Film Festival.
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