40:5 / May 2002

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the Executive Director

• Pausing to Refresh: This Summer at the AHA
  by Arnita A. Jones

From the President

• Against Presentism
  by Lynn Hunt

News

• 2002 Gutenberg-e Workshop
  by Frances M. Clarke



• Veterans History Project Launched
  by David Darlington



• Mining the Treasures of the Valley of the Shadow
  by Frances M. Clarke



• NARA Releases 1930 Census Records
  by David Darlington

News Briefs

• Records Withdrawn from Public Access
  by Bruce Craig



• Henry Louis Gates Jr. Receives NEH Honor
  by Chris Hale



• War Crimes Report Released



• Applications Invited for Teaching American History Grants

AHA Activities

• An Open Letter to History Graduate Students
  by Philip M. Katz

Viewpoints

• The "List": On the Coming Reorganization of Historical Study
  by Marshall Poe

Publishing History

The following four articles are based on the theme "Tackling the Publishing Frontier: The Tools for Article and Manuscript Publication," at a special session that had been sponsored by the AHA's Task Force on Graduate Education at the 116th Annual Meeting of the AHA held in San Francisco in January 2002:

• Getting Published by a University Press
  by Elaine Maisne



• Your Name in This Space: The Mysteries of Scholarly Publishing
  by Christopher Tomlins



• All of Tomorrow's Yesterdays: History Scholarship on the Web
  by Robert B. Townsend



• Digital Technology and Historical Scholarship: A Publishing Experiment
  by Kate Wittenberg

The Profession

Responses to AHA President Lynn Hunt's column, "Has Professionalism Gone Too Far?" published in the February 2002 issue of Perspectives.

• Amir Alexander, UCLA
  
  
• Larry Clayton, University of Alabama
  
  
• James W. Cortada, IBM Corporation
  
  
• Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College
  
  
• Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri, Columbia
  

Letters to the Editor

• David Adams's Response to the Survey of Adjunct Teaching with William Paquette's Response

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