46:9 / December 2008

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• A Modest Proposal
  by Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• On Leaving Legacies
  in the Future
  by Arnita A. Jones
  
  
  

News

• Changes in the Wings
  for the Humanities
  
  
• Bruce Cole to Leave NEH
  in January 2009
  
  
• Documents Compass Receives Mellon Grant for
  Founding-Era Database
  
  
• Adam Hochschild to Receive Roosevelt-Wilson Prize
  
  
• What’s in the December AHR?
  by Robert A. Schneider
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Resolution for the January
  2009 Business Meeting
  
  
• Mission, Media, and Risk:
  The American Historical Association Online
  by Robert B.Townsend
  
  
  
• Age Discrimination and the Community of Historians: An Advisory Opinion from the Professional Division
  
  
  

123rd Annual Meeting

• New Plenary Roundtable: Election 2008: How “Historic”
  Was It?
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Historic Election's Impact
  on History
  by Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

Teaching

• Do the Write Thing: Reflections on Academic Integrity
  by Gigi Peterson
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Over Here? Innovations for Supporting Scholarship
  by James Herbert
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Childcare at the Annual Meeting
  
  
  

Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation

• 2009–09
  

Film and History

• Masters at the Movies: Take 7
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• A Historian at the Movies:
  Films and the Historical Imagination
  by Teofilo Ruiz
  
  
  

Issues in Graduate Education
CGS Forum on Making the Transition to a Professional Career

• The Transition from Graduate Student to Professional: Introduction
  by Aaron Marrs
  
  
• Temping toward the Tenure Track
  by Lynn Sargeant
  
  
• From Teaching Assistant to Tenure-Track Faculty
  by Cheryl A. Wells
  
  
• Going to a Community College
  by Natalie Kimbrough
  
  
• From Graduate School
  to Public History
  by Melissa Jane Taylor
  
  
  

Public History

• A Historian in a House Divided:
  A Personal View of Recent Congressional History
  by John Lawrence
  
  
• Making History on the Hill:
  From Being a Fellow to Bequeathing
  a Fellowship
  by Heather A. Huyck
  
  
  

National History Center

• White Paper Presented on the
  Role of the History Major in
  Liberal Education
  by Miriam E. Hauss
  
  
• Rethinking America Once Again:
  Report on the NHC Summer Institute
  by John Gillis and Carl Guarneri
  
  
  

Annual Meeting 2010

• Call for Proposals:
  The 2010 Annual Meeting of the AHA
  by Jane Kamensky and Matt Matsuda
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• John W. F. Dulles
  
  
• Sherman David Spector
  
  

 
The image on the cover is of the old Washington, DC city hall, now a court house, situated at Indiana Avenue and 4th Street, NW. Image courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. We regret, with much embarrassment, that the caption in the print version was in error.

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