35:9/ December 1997

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From the President's Desk

• Echoes and Reverberations
  for a Retiring President
  by Joyce Appleby
  
  

From the Director's Desk

• History in an International Context
  by Sandria B. Freitag
  
  

News

• Historical Society to Transfer
  Some Historic Objects
  
  
• New Center for Humanities
  Taking Shape in New York
  
  
• Historic Places in Danger:
  The National Trust List
  
  

Teaching

Contributing Editor: David Trask

• The Problem of the Holy Roman Empire in the Survey Course:
  A Chaos Approach
  by Lawrence Birken
  
  

Professional Issues

Contributing Editor: Gail Savage

• Downsizing in the Nineties
  by Linda Pomerantz
  
  
• Downsizing Hits Home
  by Greg O'Brien
  
  

Timelines

• JFK and the AHA
  by Tom Noer
  
  

AHA Activities

• 1997 AHA Election Results
  
  

Annual Meeting

• Seattle: More Than Just a Meeting Site
  by Scott Cline and Richard H. Engeman
  
  
• Traveling to the 1998 Annual Meeting: Final Reminders
  
  
• Graduate Students and
  the Annual Meeting
  by Vernon Horn
  
  
• Important Details about
  the Annual Meeting
  
  
• A Feast of Delights:
  Eating Out in Seattle
  by Amy Kinsel
  
  
• American Historical Association
  1998 General Meeting
  
  

Film and Media

Contributing Editor:
Robert Brent Toplin

• A Historian Goes to Hollywood:
  The Spielberg Touch
  by Howard Jones
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• The Peace History Society: Scholars Explore a World Without War
  by Frances Early
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Amy S. Greenberg
  
  
• Jonathan Coopersmith
  
  
• John Raby
  
  
• Donald G. Wileman
  
  

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller
  
  

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