39:6/ September 2001

Contents of the online version of the print edition

News

• Signs of Improvement for History: 2001 Salary Report
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Tasini v. New York Times: The Implications for Historians
  by Kate Masur
  
  
• Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Gutenberg-e Prizes
  
  
• HUAC Records Opened to Public Scrutiny
  
  
• The Past Comes Alive for National History Day Participants

Noteworthy

• "Dumb Enough to Want to Get a History PhD": Views from the Trenches of Graduate Education
  by Lillian Guerra

2002 Annual Meeting

• To San Francisco for the 116th Annual Meeting, January 3–6, 2002
  by Sharon K. Tune

2003 Annual Meeting

• Call for Papers: AHA Annual Meeting, 2003
  by Anand A. Yang and Margaret Washington

Public History

Contributing Editor: Jannelle Warren-Findley

• AHA Establishes Task Force on Public History
  by Linda Shopes

Members

• Member Activities

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Vanessa Schwartz

Natalie Zemon Davis's Slaves on Screen: A Review Forum

• Introduction
  by Vanessa Schwartz
  
  
• "A Fine New Book"
  by Adam Rothman
  
  
• "Let Films be Films"
  by Ginette Vincendeau
  
  
• The Author's Response
  by Natalie Zemon Davis

Affiliated Societies

• Coordinating Council for Women in History; Oral History Association; World History Association; Council on America's Military Past; American Association for State and Local History

AHA Activities

• CGE Update: Data Collection and Outreach Move Forward
  by Philip M. Katz
  
  
• Jameson and AHA-NASA Fellowships Announced
  
  
• AHA Council Decisions, June 2001
  
  
• Scholars Gather to Explore Empires
  by Debbie Ann Doyle

Letters to the Editor

• Richard Price and Sally Price on the art of reviewing
  
  
• Michael Bellesiles on the dangers of the web

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