37:4/ April 1999

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President's Desk

• The Umbrella and the Chautauqua
  by Robert Darnton

Teaching

Contributing Editor: David Trask

• Educational Uses of Native American Historical Films and Videos
  by Steven Leuthold

AHA Activities

• Arnita Jones Named AHA Director
• 1999 AHA Nominations

Affiliated Societies

• Historians Film Committee; Popular Culture Association

Letters to the Editor

• Carolsue Holland; Arthur N. Gilbert; Fred C. Smith on film and media, with a response from Robert Brent Toplin

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Robert Brent Toplin

Reel History: A Special Issue

• Film and History: The State of the Union
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  

• Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery: A Review
  by Peter Kolchin
  
  

• Interpreting History on the Screen: An Interview with Terry George
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  

• Shooting Britannia
  by Simon Schama
  
  

• Lessons from the Screen: Film and Video in the Classrooom
  by Kathryn Helgesen Fuller
  
  
  

• HBO's Version of Neil Sheehan's Epic: Old Wine in New Bottles?
  by Peter C. Rollins
  
  

• Elizabeth: Romantic Film Heroine or Sixteenth-Century Queen?
  by Carole Levin
  
  

• The Thin Red Line: Not Enough History
  by Kenneth Jackson
  
  

• History, the Rugrats, and World Championship Wrestling
  by Richard White
  
  

• The Cold War According to CNN
  by Lloyd Gardner

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