45:1/ January 2007

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• The AHA and Academic Freedom in the Age of Homeland Security
  by Barbara Weinstein
  

News

• What's In a Label? Changing Patterns of Faculty Specialization since 1975
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• History PhD Numbers Lowest in Almost a Decade as Job Listings Continue to Rise
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Historians Franklin and Yu
  Receive the Kluge Prize
  
  
• New Executive Director of the National Coalition for History Selected
  
  
• Historians among Recipients of
  National Humanities Medals
  
  

AHA Activities

• Report on the 2006 AHA Election
  by Clarence E. Walker
  
  
• Nominations Invited for 2007 Election
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Some Parting Thoughts on Capitol Hill
  by Bruce Craig
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  

Teaching

• Thoughts on Creative Teaching
  in the Undergraduate Classroom
  by Jeffrey P. Shepherd
  
  
• What Does It Mean to
  Think Historically?
  by Thomas Andrews and
  Flannery Burke
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Categorical Imperatives?
• What’s in a Subspecialty’s Name?
• Response from Linda Kerber
• Endorsing Byrd
• Response from Bruce Craig
• Some Missed Notes
• When Did World War II Begin?
• The Disabled: Are Preferential
  Policies the Answer?

In Memoriam

• Marshall Fishwick
  
  
• Kermit Hall
  
  

On the cover:
Detail from a photo of the Great Wall of China by George Saxton, and courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Department of Commerce.

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