48:1 /January 2010

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Doing History for Life
  By Barbara D. Metcalf
  
  
  

News

• A Grim Year on the Academic Job Market for Historians
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• History PhDs Grow in Number and Diversity in 2007–08
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Report of the 2009 AHA Nominating Committee
  By Laura Ackerman Smoller
  
  
• Call for Nominations for the
  2010 AHA Election
  By the 2010 AHA Nominating Committee
  
  
• History Syllabus Wiki: A Query
  By Maddalena Marinari
  
  
• Contributing Members
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Obama Administration Issues
  Sweeping Open Government Directive
  By Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  
  

Noteworthy

• The Audacity of Hope:
  Economic History Today
  By Peter A. Coclanis
  
  
  

The Profession

• Happy Notes on TAH and Faculty Evaluation Blues
  By Edward R. Crowther
  
  
  

Teaching

• Ethics for Historians: The Perspective of One Undergraduate Class
  By Catherine Denial
  (with contributions by Devin Harvie)
  
  
  

2011 Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  125th Annual Meeting of the AHA
  By Michael Fisher
  and Barbara H. Rosenwein
  
  
  

National History Center

• Center Receives $1.457 Million Mellon Foundation Grant to Continue Decolonization Seminars
  
  
• New Seminar Series
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Three Suggestions on Languages
  for Historians
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Jo Ann Kay McNamara
  
  
  

The cover design 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).