50:3 / March 2012

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Professional Boredom
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• "Big Data":
  An Opportunity for Historians?
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

News

• Who Are the New History PhDs?
  NSF Snapshot from 2012 Provides Insights into Current Trends
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• AHA Members Receive
  Humanities Medals
  
  
• Nationwide Tuning Project
  for Undergraduate History
  Programs Launched
  By Julia Brookins
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• The "Productivity" Question:
  Assessing Historians and Their Work
  
  
• AHA Council, Divisions,
  and Committees for 2012
  
  
  

Teaching

• Teaching History across Borders:
  The Collaboration between
  York and Arizona State Universities
  By Susan E. Gray and Colin M. Coates
  
  
• Integrating Gender and Political History into Courses on Post-1945
  U.S. History
  By Tamar Carroll and Lily Geismer
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• History, Civics,
  and Making the Engaged Citizen
  By Lee White
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies Take 18
  Denise Youngblood on Elem Klimov's
  Come and See
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• Apocalyptic Visions of the Great Patriotic War:
  Elim Klimov's Come and See
  By Denise J. Youngblood
  
  
  

National History Center

• Paths of Progress for the History Major
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
• Participants in the 2012 Seminar
  on Decolonization
  
  
  

Member News

• March 2012
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Tai Liu
  
  
• Benjamin F. Brown IV
  
  
  
  
  

The image on the front cover of the print version is a set design painting for the film Come and See. Tempera on plywood, by Viktor Valentinovich Petrov (b.1947) / State Museum and Exhibition Centre, Moscow, courtesy 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).