From the President

• And Gladly Teach
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• The Tasks before Us
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

News

• Results of the 2012 AHA Election
  
  
• New Benefits for AHA Members
  
  
• What's in the December AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• What Makes a Successful Academic Career in History?
  A Field Report from the Higher Ranks
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• Tipping Points in Teaching:
  A Call for Collaboration
  By Patricia Limerick
  
  
  

On Completing 50: Self-Reflections

• Some Prefatory Notes on This Issue: Celebrating a 50th Anniversary
  By The Editors
  
  
• A Perspective on Perspectives
  By James W. Cortada
  
  
• Memories of Development
  By Alice Kessler-Harris
  
  
• A Half Century with the AHA
  By Peter N. Stearns
  
  
  

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Search Committees:
  Help Your Candidates
  By Liz Townsend
  
  
• Registration | Hotel Rates and Map
  
  
  

The 128th Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals
  for the 128th Annual Meeting
  By Anne McCants and Peter Perdue
  
  
  

AHA Online

• Trending on AHA's Social Media
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

National History Center

• Washington History Seminar
  Turns Three
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

Cover design of the print version is by Chris Hale.

The Future of the Discipline
A Special 50th Anniversary Forum, Guest Edited by Lynn Hunt

• The Prospects of the Present
  By Lynn Hunt
  
  
• The Future of the Profession
  By Benjamin Alpers
  
  
• Time to Retire?
  By Caroline Walker Bynum
  
  
• Human Agency in the Anthropocene
  By Dipesh Chakrabarty
  
  
• African History / Global History
  By Frederick Cooper
  
  
• The Future of Local Historical Societies
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• Diplomatic History's Ill-Deserved Reputation and Bright Future
  By Jeffery A. Engel
  
  
• The Futures of Native American History in the United States
  By Pekka Hämäläinen
  
  
• Academic Journals in the Digital Era:
  An Editor's Reflections
  By Ethan Kleinberg
  
  
• The Appeal of Transnational History
  By Lisa A. Lindsay
  
  
• Learning from Latin America
  By Christine Mathias
  
  
• Promises and Perils
  of Transnational History
  By Mae M. Ngai
  
  
• Our Role in Wikipedia: Building an Open and Collaborative History
  By Lori Byrd Phillips
  and Dominic McDevitt-Parks
  
  
• Wishful Thinking
  By Joan Wallach Scott
  
  
• Beyond the Longue Durée:
  Human History in Deep Time
  By Daniel Lord Smail
  
  
• Culture and Economic Development: Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow
  By Francesca Trivellato
  
  
• Teaching History in the 21st-Century Community College
  By Charles A. Zappia
  
  
• History: Past, Present, and Future
  A Conversation between
  Lynn Hunt and Jacques Revel
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Tragedy, Memory, History
  
  
• Remembering Veterans
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Stuart Hilwig
  
  
• Richard W. Lyman
  
  
• Henry F. May
  
  
• Anna K. Nelson
  
  
• Michael Wreszin
  
  
  

Endnotes

• Reflections of a Retiring Editor
  By Pillarisetti Sudhir
  
  
  

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