50:1 / January 2012

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• The Public Practice of History
  in and for a Digital Age
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• The Incredible Rightness of Belonging
  Why It Is Important to Be an AHA Member
  By Jim Grossman
  
  
  

News

• AHA's Community-College Project Receives NEH Grant
  By Julia Brookins
  
  
• Institute for Constitutional History Invites Applications for Two Seminars
  
  
• In Case You Missed It . . .
  By Elisabeth Grant
  
  
• Small Signs of Improvement
  in Academic Job Market for Historians
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• The 2011 AHA Election:
  Report of the Nominating Committee
  By Carol Anderson
  
  
• Nominating Committee for 2012 Reiterates Call for Nominations
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Federal Records at Risk?
  By Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  By Lee White
  
  
  
  

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  The 2013 Annual Meeting
  By Paul S. Sutter and John McNeill
  
  
• "Lives, Places, Stories":
  Theme for the 2013 Annual Meeting
  By Paul S. Sutter, William Cronon,
  and John McNeill
  
  
• Some Advice from the Program Committee on Submitting Proposals for the 2013 Annual Meeting
  By Paul S. Sutter
  
  
  

Member News

• January 2012
  
  
• Choice Magazine's List of "Top 25 Outstanding Academic Books of 2011" Includes Five Books by AHA Members
  
  
  

Forum on The Art of Mentoring

• Introduction
  By Aeleah Soine
  
  
• You're the Adviser Now!
  Mentoring Graduate Student and Advanced Undergraduate Research
  By Nicole M. Phelps
  
  
• Pathways toward the Past:
  Mentoring for an Expansive, Inclusive, and Shared Sense of History
  By Ana Elizabeth Rosas
  
  
• What Do I Do
  and Where Do I Go From Here?
  Mentoring at an Open-Door Institution
  By Will Benedicks
  
  
• Bridge Mentoring:
  How to Advise While Being Advised, Mentor While Being Mentored
  By Steven S. Volk
  
  
  

National History Center

• The National History Center Today
  By Wm. Roger Louis
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• 'Abd-Al-'Aziz 'Abd-Allah Batran
  
  
• Norbert J. Gossman
  
  
• Oscar Handlin
  
  
• Bruce C. Nelson
  
  
• Norman W. Smith
  
  
• Paul J. Vanderwood
  
  
  
  
  

The cover of the print edition shows detail from School of Athens, the Raphael fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura / Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City, Italy / Alinari / The Bridgeman Art Library International..

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