45:9/December 2007

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

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

AHA Activities

• 2007 AHA Election Results
  
  
• The AHA Constitution:
  The Proposed Amended Draft
  
  
• Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
  
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• "Sites of Encounters and Cultural Production": An AHA Initiative
  for an Action Thématique
  by Teofilo F. Ruiz
  
  
  

News

• Across the World:
  The December 2007 Issue
  of the AHR is on Its Way
  by Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• An AHR Forum on History
  in the Digital Age
  
  
• Historians Get Rare Opportunity to Comment on Federal Policy on Oral History Projects
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• News Briefs
  by Lee White
  
  
  

The Profession

• Building Successful Partnerships
  between Museums and Universities
  by Catherine M. Lewis
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Save the Books!
  by James W. Cortada
  
  
  

Issues in
Graduate Education

• Retention of Doctoral Students
  by James Palmitessa
  
  
• Beat the Clock! Managing the
  Final Lap of Your PhD Program
  by Andrew McIlwaine Bell
  
  
  

2009 Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  The 123rd Annual Meeting
  by Felice Lifshitz and Jerry Bentley
  
  
• New and Improved Electronic Proposal System Launched
  by Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Faculty Evaluation and the
  Crisis in the Historical Profession
  
  
• The AHA and Academic Freedom
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Theodore L. Agnew Jr.
  
  
• Gerald R. Gill
  
  
• John Doyle Klier
  
  
  

Cover shows detail from Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jokisen (“Foreigners’ ship: steamship”), an 1861 print, either by Hiroshige Utagawa II or Hiroshige III, possibly depicting Commodore Perry’s ship in a Japanese harbor. Digital image courtesy the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

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