50:2 / February 2012

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Scholarly Authority
  in a Wikified World
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• The Beckoning Horizon
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

News

• What's in the February 2012 AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• The AHR Announces a Prize Competition for the Best Digital Article
  By Philip J. Ethington
  and Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• Call for Submissions for the AHR Prize for the Best Digital Article
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Council Decisions, January 2012
  
  
  

The 126th Annual Meeting

• The 126th Annual Meeting
  A Retrospective Album of Snapshots from the Staff
  
  
• The Film Festival at the 126th Annual Meeting
  By Chris Hale
  
  
• Awards, Prizes, and Honors Conferred at the 126th Annual Meeting
  Compiled by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
  

Teaching

• History and the Games People Play:
  Teaching Past Politics through Contemporary Sports Encounters
  By Gail Hook
  
  
  

State of the Field

• Maritime History Today
  By John B. Hattendorf
  
  
  

National History Center

• "Getting It Right" at Chicago
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
• National History Center's Board Restructured
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Making the Case in Challenging Times
  By Lee White
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Richard Greenleaf
  
  
• Paula E. Hyman
  
  
• David Montgomery
  
  
• Melvin Shefftz
  
  
  
  
  

The photo on the cover shows the panel at the Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum, which took place on Friday, January 6, 2012. From left to right: Laura Isabel Serna (Univ. of Southern California), Laura Rominger Porter (Univ. of Notre Dame), Aeleah Soine (St. Mary's Coll. of California), and Aaron Marrs (U.S. Dept. of State). Photo by Marc Monaghan.

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