47:6 / September 2009

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Mr. Everyman Buys Coal
  By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Moving Ahead with Retirement
  By Arnita A. Jones
  
  
  

News

• History in These Hard Times
  Departments Struggle in a Depressing Economy
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Jameson and NASA Fellows Selected
  
  
• CWH Launches Information
  and Resources Web Page
  
  
• The AHA Announces the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• AHA Council Decisions, June 2009
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• President Makes Key
  History-Related Appointments
  By Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

The 124th Annual Meeting

• Get Ready for the 2010
  Annual Meeting in San Diego
  By Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Special Sessions and Activities Organized by the Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
  
  
• Registration Form
  
  
• Hotel & Rate Information and Map
  
  

Public History

• A Picture of Public History
  Preliminary Results from the 2008 Survey of Public History Professionals
  Toward Transparency
  By John Dichtl
  and Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

Timelines

• History in Those Hard Times:
  Looking for Jobs in The 1970s
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

Teaching

Forum on Capstone Courses
• The History of the Capstone Course
  at Saint Peter’s College, Jersey City
  By Eugenia Palmegiano
  and Jerome Gillen
  
  
• My First Capstone Course
  By Ian Chambers
  
  
• The Capstone Course at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
  By Andrew Kersten
  
  
  

2011 Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  125th Annual Meeting of the AHA
  By Michael Fisher
  and Barbara H. Rosenwein
  
  
• “History, Society, and the Sacred”
  Theme for the 2011 Annual Meeting
  By Michael Fisher
  and Barbara H. Rosenwein
  
  
• Annual Meeting Guidelines
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• The NAACP Is a Hundred Years Old
  
  
• On Pencils, Erasers, and Palimpsests
  
  
• On Carbon Copies:
  An Error Replicated?
  
  
• Digital Media
  and Historical Research
  
  
• Should the Federal Government
  Fund History Teaching?
  
  
  

Members

• September, 2009
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Ernest Richard May
  
  
• David Herbert Donald
  
  
• Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert
  
  
  

 
The cover of the print edition shows the San Diego harbor. Photo by Chris Hale.

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