35:4/ April 1997

Contents of the online version of the print edition

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From the President's Desk

• Reviving the Teacher-Scholar Ideal
  by Joyce Appleby

From the Director's Desk

• History Departments and the AHA
  by Sandria B. Freitag

Noteworthy

• East Meets West: Reflections on Teaching an American Past in the Former East Germany
  by Stephen Engle
  
  
• Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress to Officially Reopen May 1
  
  
• Technology, Scholarship, and Politics: The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
  by David Green

Professional Issues

Contributing Editor: Gail Savage

• Some Implications of Tenure for the Profession and Society
  by Ernst Benjamin
  
  
• AHA Surveys Indicate Bleak Outlook in History Job Market
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• The Job Crisis of the 1970s
  by Robert B. Townsend

Members

Teaching Innovations

Contributing Editor: Robert Blackey

• Teaching as Scholarship, Scholarship as Teaching: A Case Study
  by Warren Roberts
  
  
• Contextualizing "Totalitarianism" in the Classroom
  by Abbott Gleason

AHA Activities

• Annual Report of the Professional Division
  by Carla Rahn Phillips
  
  
• 1998 Committee Structure: Additional Appointments
  
  
• 1997 AHA Nominations

Letters to the Editor

• Gregory J. Dehler
• John H. Summers
• Doyne Dawson

In Memoriam

• Sally Hunter Graham
• Benjamin A. Quarles

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller

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