48:5 / May 2010

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• History with Controversy,
  and History Without
  By Barbara D. Metcalf
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Miscellaneous Thoughts
  on Moving On
  By Arnita A. Jones
  
  
  

News

• New Report Shows Little Growth in Salaries for History Faculty
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  
• 219 Congressional Offices Lobbied
  on Museums Advocacy Day
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• History Doctoral Programs
  Site Updated
  
  
• Jonathan Spence to Deliver
  Jefferson Lecture
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Coalition Testimony on NARA
  and NHPRC Submitted to House Subcommittee
  By Lee White
  
  
  

The Profession

• What the Data Reveals
  about Women Historians
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• A Correction from DAAD
  on Age Restrictions
  
  
• Aging and the Art of History
  
  
  

Members

• May 2010
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Jack R. Pole
  
  
• Robert James Young
  
  
  

The image on the cover is composite by Chris Hale .

Controversy in the Classroom

• Controversy in the Classroom:
  A Matter for Debate
  By Pillarisetti Sudhir
  
  
• Teaching Old Controversies
  before New: The Galileo Affair
  and Darwinian Revolution
  By Oscar Chamberlain
  and Anthony Millevolte
  
  
• Safer Sex in the High School History Classroom: How Sex is Repressed, Why It is Necessary,
  and What We Can Do about It
  By Christopher L. Doyle
  
  
• Teaching Controversial Topics: Abortion
  By Trysh Travis
  
  
• Teaching LGBTQ History:
  Two Situations
  By Vicki L. Eaklor
  
  
• Anti-Homophobia Education: Predicaments and Possibilities
  By Rachel Mattson
  
  
• Taking the Court into the
  Classroom Using Legal Cases
  to Discuss Controversial Topics
  By James Coll
  
  
• Beyond Morality: Teaching about Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
  By James Fusetta
  
  
• American Foreign Policy at an Impasse: Teaching about Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement
  By Karl P. Benziger
  and Robert Cvornyek
  
  
• Teaching “The United States
  and the Vietnam War”
  By Donna Alvah
  
  
• Lessons from the Modern
  Middle East
  By Omnia El-Shakry
  
  
• Let's Talk about Religion
  By Richard Schaefer
  
  
• Religion in History
  and Social Studies
  By Keith C. Barton
  and Jennifer Hauver James
  
  
• Doing History in NPS “Classrooms”
  By Laura Feller
  
  
• Small Steps in a Museum,
  Big Steps for History?
  Questions from an Intern
  By Jonathan Gunter Post
  
  
• Painful Pedagogies: Teaching
  about War and Violence
  in African History
  By Alicia C. Decker
  
  

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