43:8/ November 2005

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the Executive Director

• A New Course for Graduate Education
  by Arnita A. Jones
  
  

News

• Scholar Rescue Fund Offers Support for Scholars at Risk in Iraq and Afghanistan
  
  
• National History Center Appoints Administrative Officer
  
  
• Ten Historians Are Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
  

In Conversation

• Re-Collecting the African American Experience: A Conversation with Lonnie Bunch
  by Noralee Frankel and Cliff Jacobs
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Administration Officials Target National Park Historic Sites
  by Bruce Craig
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  

Teaching

• Student Assessment in the Classroom: Who's in Control?
  by James Roth
  
  

Research

• Historians with Pain
  by Margaret Jacob
  
  

Professional Issues

• Meeting the Press: Twelve Tips for a Better Interview
  by Jamil Zainaldin
  
  
• How I Learned to Quit Whining and Enjoy Teaching at a Community College and Why You Might Want to Consider Doing the Same
  by David Arnold
  
  

Annual Meeting 2006

• Some Highlights of the Annual Meeting
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• The Scholars' Initiative: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies
  
  
• Reminders for the 2006 Annual Meeting
  
  
• The 120th Annual Meeting: What's in It for School Teachers and Students?
  by Donna Sharer
  
  
• The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
  by Rosalind Remer and Allison McBride
  
  
• Research in the Philadelphia Area
  by Leslie Simon and Jefferson Moak
  
  
• Prizes and Awards for 2005 Announced
  
  
• Pre-Circulated Papers: Some Helpful Guidelines
  
  

Annual Meeting 2007

• Call for Proposals: The 2007 Annual Meeting of the AHA
  by Carolyn Brown and Barbara Welke
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• SHGAPE Announces Competition for Best Article Prize
  
  
• AASLH Presents Awards for 2005
  
  
• The Western Association of Women Historians
  
  

In Memoriam

• Jack Martin Balcer
  
  
• Charles Morely
  
  
• Elka Beth Klein
  
  

The cover shows the Woolworth’s Counter from the Greensboro, N.C., sit-in of February 1, 1960, on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. The new museum featured in the interview with Lonnie Bunch will be home to similar iconic images and artifacts pertaining to African American history and culture.
Photo by Chris Hale.