47:2 / February 2009

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Of Cats, Hats, and Remembrance of Things Past
  by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  
  
  

News

• What’s in the February AHR?
  by Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• National History Day Receives Major Gift from Kenneth Behring
  
  
• Historians Propose Priorities for New Archivist
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Letter to the Russian President Protests Raid on Human Rights Archive
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Obama Is Serious about Government Transparency
  by Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

Noteworthy

• History as Theater
  by Joyce Antler and Elinor Fuchs
  
  
  

The Profession

• The Commodification and
  Deprofessionalization of the PhD
  by Martin R. Mulford
  
  
  

Viewpoints
Forum on Intellectual Property

• New World of Publishing: Intellectual Property, Journals, and the Web
  by Eileen Boris
  
  
• The New World of Publishing and New Directions in Intellectual Property
  by Michael Les Benedict
  
  
• Authors’ Rights in an Age of
  Electronic Reproduction
  by Alice Kessler-Harris
  
  
  

Issues in Graduate Education

• Rethinking Graduate Education
  in History
  by Jonathan Rose
  
  
  

Timelines

• Distinctions for Distant Scholars:
  The AHA and Honorary Foreign Members
  by David Darlington
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Jeanne Boydston
  
  
• Don Higginbotham
  
  
  

 
The image on the cover is a photograph of participants from the 1889 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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