47:3 / March 2009

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Grasping the Gavel
  By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Unfinished Business
  By Arnita A. Jones
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• 2009 AHA Committee Structure
  
  
• Council Decisions, January 2009
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• There’s a New Sheriff in Town
  By Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

Annual Meeting 2009

• Highlights from the 123rd Annual Meeting A Retrospective
  Compiled by David M. Darlington
  
  
• Awards and Honors Conferred at the 123rd Annual Meeting
  Compiled by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
  

Timelines

• 123 in 125: A Brief History of AHA Annual Meetings
  By David M. Darlington
  
  
  

Public History

• Advising Undergraduates about Career Opportunities in Public History
  by Melissa Bingmann
  
  
  

Members

• March 2009
  
  
  

The Profession
Forum on Assessment

• Inroduction
  By Noralee Frankel
  
  
• Assessing History:
  Can We Know Our “Outcomes”?
  By Norman L. Jones
  
  
• Resistance Is Futile: One Approach to Program Assessment in History
  By James I. Matray
  
  
• Assessment at American University
  By Robert Griffith
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies: Take 9
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• The Women, Then and Now:
  Remaking a Film and Recasting Roles
  By Ellen Carol DuBois
  
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• Historians Film Committee at the AHA Annual Meeting
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Nikolai Bolkhovitinov
  
  
• Joseph Howard Lynch
  
  
• Eugene J. Watts
  
  
  

 
The image on the cover is a collage by Chris Hale
of actresses in the original 1939 film version of
The Women. Original images courtesy Warner Home Video.

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