47:5 / May 2009

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Erasing History
  By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  
  
  

News

• 2009 Salary Report:
  Falling Further Behind
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Feds Report Rising Undergraduates and Declining PhDs in History
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• “Paper of Record” Disappears, Leaving Historians in the Lurch
  
  
• Five Prizes Offered for Online Exhibits on LGBTQ History
  
  
• New Digital Resource Launched in Germany
  By Hans Medick
  
  
• What Would JFK Have Done? Counterfactual History Comes to a Cinema Near You
  
  

Timelines

• Minutes of the
  1909 Business Meeting
  
  

In Memoriam:
John Hope Franklin

• Remembering
  John Hope Franklin
  By Leon F. Litwack
  
  
• Franklin, the Quintessential Scholar Activist
  By Mary Frances Berry
  
  
• Franklin:
  The Mentor in My Memory
  By David Barry Gaspar
  
  

AHA Activities

• An Open Letter to Professor X: “Please don’t quit the AHA because the AHR did not review your book.”
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• Working Group Developing Plans to Explore Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage at San Diego Annual Meeting
  
  
• AHA Vice President and
  11 Other Members Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Treading Carefully
  Toward Transparency
  By Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Robert I. Burns, S.J.
  
  
• Miriam Usher Chrisman
  
  
• Charles Adams Hale
  
  
• Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
  
  
  

Intersections:
History and New Media

• Viewing History at the Intersection
  of Past and Future
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Digital Media in History:
  Remediating Data and Narratives
  By Stefan Tanaka
  
  
• Two Ideas, Two Cities, Two Projects:
  A Digital Urban World
  By Janice L. Reiff
  
  
• New Media and the Challenges
  for Public History
  By Tim Grove
  
  
• Practicing Digital History at the Intersection of Teaching, Research, and Outreach
  By E. Thomas Ewing
  
  
• Erasing the Line between Pedagogy and Epistemology
  By John McClymer
  
  
• Investigating U.S. History at CUNY—Digitally
  By David Jaffee
  
  
• What is Digital History?
  A Look at Some Exemplar Projects
  By Douglas Seefeldt
  and William G. Thomas
  
  
• Keeping up with the Web, 1997–2008: Women and Social Movements in the United States
  By Kathryn Kish Sklar
  and Thomas Dublin
  
  
• The Mythology of Blogs: A Top Ten List for the Uninitiated Historian
  By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
  
  
• Wiki and the History Classroom
  By Kevin B. Sheets
  
  
• The Digital Durham Project: Creating Community through History, Technology, and Service Learning
  By Trudi Abel
  
  
• Visualizing 19th-Century Edinburgh with Animation Software
  By Lisa Rosner
  
  
• History Engine: Creating a Writing Assignment for the Digital Age
  By Andrew J. Torget
  with Scott Nesbit
  
  
• Teaching with the History Engine:
  Experiences from the Field
  By Lloyd Benson, Julian Chambliss, Jamie Martinez, Kathryn Tomasek, and Jim Tuten
  
  
• Creating Community with the History Engine Connecting Teachers, Librarians, Students, and Scholars
  By Kathryn S. Meier
  and Rachel Shapiro
  
  
• Pragmatic As Well As Prescient: Digital History Education at George Mason University
  By Daniel J. Cohen
  
  
• Roy Rosenzweig and the
  Future of the Past
  By Steven Mintz
  
  

 
The cover art on the print edition is by Chris Hale.

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