35:3/ March 1997

Contents of the online version of the print edition

Perspectives began publishing entire issues online in 1998. The following articles were
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From the President's Desk

• Should We All Become Public Historians?
  by Joyce Appleby

From the Director's Desk

• Area Studies and Historians
  by Sandria B. Freitag

Noteworthy

• The Future of Area Studies: Report on the UCLA Conference Session on Research Issues
  by Sandria B. Freitag

Teaching Innovations

Contributing Editor: Robert Blackey

• Students as Historians: Lessons from an "Interactive" Census Database Project
  by Trudi Johanna Abel
  
  
• Active Learning:
  A Critical Examination
  by Daniel D. Trifan
  
  
• Comment on Daniel D. Trifan's "Active Learning: A Critical Examination"
  by James W. Oberly

Professional Issues

Contributing Editor: Gail Savage

• Studies Report Mixed News for History Job Seekers
  by Robert B. Townsend

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Robert Brent Toplin

• The Uses of Film in the Teaching of History: Results of a National Workshop
  by Theodore K. Rabb

Viewpoints

• Further Comment on Daniel D. Trifan's "Active Learning: A Critical Examination"
  by Roland Marchand

AHA Activities

• Annual Report of the Vice President of the AHA Research Division
  by William G. Rosenberg
  
  
• Report of the 1996 Committee on Minority Historians
  by Allison Blakely
  
• Task Force to Review Perspectives
  
  
• Wendi Maloney Steps Down
  
  
• 1997 AHA Committee Structure
  
  

In Memoriam

• J.H. Hexter, 1910–1996
  
  

NCC Advocacy Update

• NCC Advocacy Update March 1997
  by Page Putnam Miller

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