47:1 / January 2009

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Great Expectations
  by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  
  
  

News

• A Good Year on the Job Market,
  but Troubles Loom
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Two Historians Receive 2008
  Kluge Prize for Study of Humanity
  
  
• Chair of U.S. State Department’s
  Historical Advisory Committee Resigns in Protest
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• The 2008 Election:
  Report of the Nominating Committee
  by Jane Landers
  
  
• Call for Nominations for
  the 2009 AHA Election
  by the 2009 Nominating Committee
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• News Briefs
  by Lee White
  
  
  

Teaching

• Misleading Analogies and
  Historical Thinking:
  The War in Iraq as Case Study
  by Robert Shaffer
  
  
  
• Where Is the History Lab Course?
  by Nancy Shoemaker
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies : Take 8

• Introduction
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• The World War II Antiwar Film
  by John Bodnar
  
  
  

Issues in Graduate Education
AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee Forum: From Notes to Narrative: The Art of Crafting a Dissertation or Monograph

• Introduction
  by Elise Lipkowitz
  
  
• Managing the Terror
  by Brad S. Gregory
  
  
• Finding the Story
  by Deborah E. Harkness
  
  
• On Taking Notes
  by Judith Walkowitz
  
  
  

Timelines

• How Times Have Changed!
  (Or Have They?)
  by Jessica Pritchard
  
  
  

Annual Meeting 2010

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

Letters to the Editor

• On Readability
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Noel J. Stowe
  
  
• Thomas W. Blomquist
  
  
• Gerald D. Feldman
  
  

 
The cover photo on the print edition shows Mayor McClellan of New York City, addressing the convention of historians and economists at Carnegie Hall, December 27, 1909. Others on the platform, beginning at the left, are: William Jay Schieffelin, Isaac N. Seligman, Davis R. Dewey, John B. Clark, Albert Busnell Hart, William M. Sloane, Ambassador James Bryce, Governor Hughes, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank A. Vanderlip, Waldo Lincoln, and Edwin R.A. Seligman.

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