47:4 / April 2009

Contents of the online version of the print edition

News

• National Humanities Alliance Meets in Washington, D.C.
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009
  
  
• New Film on Secret Meetings of World War II Will Premiere on PBS in May
  • The Making of WWII Behind Closed Doors: A Conversation with Laurence Rees and Robert Dallek
• What's in the April AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• Museum Professionals Gather for First Museums Advocacy Day
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• AHA Nominations for the
  2009 Election
  By Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriages Established for San Diego Annual Meeting
  By Karen Halttunen
  
  

Noteworthy

• Preserving Our History: Unfinished Business at Foggy Bottom
  By Wm. Roger Louis
  
  
• History in the U.S.
  Capitol Visitor Center
  By Richard A. Baker
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Omnibus Appropriations
  Bill Enacted
  By Lee White
  
  
  

Timelines

• The AHA in the Second World War: Trying to Win the Peace with Wartime Pamphlets
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies: Take 10
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• The Hot Dynasty:
  The Tudors on Film and TV
  By Cynthia Herrup
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• On Rethinking Graduate
  History Education
  
  
• On Age Discrimination
  
  
• On Politics and the 1968
  Annual Meeting
  
  
  

Viewpoints
Forum on the 2008 Presidential Election

• How Historic Is the 2008 Election?
  Introductory Remarks
  By Eric Foner
  
  
• A Remarkable Election
  By Jacqueline Jones
  
  
• Election 2008:
  How ‘Historic’ Was It?
  By David Levering Lewis
  
  
• What Makes an Election Historic . . .
  And Has That Happened In 2008?
  By Julian E. Zelizer
  
  
  

Teaching
Forum on Capstone Courses

• Placing the Senior Capstone Course within the History Program
  By Timothy L. Schroer
  
  
• History in the Trenches: Teaching the Undergraduate Capstone Course
  By Mary Stockwell
  
  
• How the Capstone Course Changed the Curriculum at Sienna College
  By Wendy Pojmann, Bruce Eelman, Barbara Reeves-Ellington,
  and Scott K. Taylor
  
  
  

National History Center

• Participants Selected for the Summer 2009 Decolonization Seminar
  
  
• NHC Director Wm. Roger Louis Is Selected as Professor of the Year at University of Texas
  
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• Languages and the Study of History:
  A Report of the Annual Meeting Session
  By Thomas Adams
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Bruce F. Adams
  
  
• Jon Gjerde
  
  
• Enno E. Kraehe
  
  
• Edward Carl Thaden
  
  
• Lawrence D. Walker
  
  
  

 
The cover photo on the print edition is by M.Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force and is courtesy of the Defense Visual Information Directorate.

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Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version
of Perspectives on History (ISSN: 0743-7021).