46:1/January 2008

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• The Case for History
  and the Humanities
  by Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  
  
  

News

• Perspectives Gets a New Name
  
  
• Number of History PhDs
  Rising Again, but Job
  Openings Keep Pace
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• NYU Creates Master’s Program
  in Archives and Public History
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Report of the 2007
  AHA Nominating Committee
  By Neil Foley
  
  
• 2008 Nominating Committee Invites Nominations for AHA’s Elective Offices
  
  
  

In Conversation

• In Conversation with . . .
  João José Reis
  by Sueann Caulfield
  
  
  

Public History

• Public History and
  Public Audiences:
  The U.S. Department of
  State and Its Historical
  Advisory Committee
  by Kristin L. Ahlberg
  and Thomas W. Zeiler
  
  
  

Noteworthy

• Report of the Advisory
  Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation
  January 1–December 31, 2006
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• The Year in Review
  by Lee White
  
  
  

Film and History

• Masters at the Movies—Take 2
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• The Pawnbroker:
  Holocaust, Memory, and Film
  by Richard Stites
  
  
  

Teaching

• Taking History Personally:
  How Blogs Connect Students
  Outside the Classroom
  by Russell Olwell
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• A Million Little Historical Societies:
  A Proposal for Change
  by Tim Lacy
  
  
  

2009 Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  The 123rd Annual Meeting
  by Felice Lifshitz and Jerry Bentley
  
  
• Session Types at the Annual Meeting
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• More on the "P" Word
  
  
• Even More Left Behind
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• James H. Cassedy
  
  
• Eugen Weber
  
  

Cover art of the print edition is by Chris Hale.

Published by the American Historical Association,
Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version
of Perspectives (ISSN: 0743-7021).