46:6/September 2008

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• "Getting Medieval":
  History and the Torture Memos
  by Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  
  
  

News

• The Status of Women
  and Minorities in the
  History Profession, 2008
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Jameson and
  NASA Fellow Selected
  
  
• British Scholar Society Launched
  by Brett Bennett
  
  
• National History Day
  by Elisabeth C. Grant
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• AHA Council Decisions,
  June 2008
  
  
  

123rd Annual Meeting

• To New York for
  the 123rd Annual Meeting
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Welcome to New York
  by Daniel J. Walkowitz
  
  
• Tours Organized by the Local Arrangements Committee
  
  
• Registration Form
  and Hotel Information
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Federal Court Orders Release
  of Rosenberg Trial Grand
  Jury Records
  by Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

The Profession

• Conference Rules, Part 2:
  Everything You Need to Know
  about Introducing Speakers and Running a Panel Discussion
  by Linda K. Kerber
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Further Reflections
  on Saving Books
  by Gari-Anne Patzwald
  
  
• Hiring Historians: Can't We Make the Process Better?
  by Martin R. Mulford
  
  
  

Film and History

• Masters at the Movies—Take 5
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• Paper Clips
  by Michael Kammen
  
  
  

Research

• The National Bankruptcy Archives Documents the History of Bankruptcy
  by C. Jordon Steele
  
  
  

Teaching

• Rethinking the History MA:
  The Community College Case
  by Lawrence Baron
  
  
  

Annual Meeting 2010

• Call for Proposals:
  The 2010 Annual Meeting of the AHA
  by Jane Kamensky and Matt Matsuda
  
  
• Oceans, Islands, and Continents:
  Theme for the 2010 Annual Meeting
  by Jane Kamensky and Matt Matsuda
  
  
• AHA Annual Meeting Guidelines
  
  
  

Noteworthy

• Report of the Advisory Committee on Diplomatic Documentation for 2007
  
  
  
• The Joint Working Group
  on Evaluating Public
  History Scholarship
  by Gregory E. Smoak
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Monroe Lee Billington
  
  
• Peter Knox Cline
  
  
• Edward Lurie
  
  
• H. Brett Melendy
  
  
  

 
The cover shows detail from The Tribunal of the Inquisition by Francisco de Goya. Image of the painting in the Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain, courtesy Wikimedia Commons (we regret that the print version carried an incomplete citation).

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Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version
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