51:1 / January 2013

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Not by Numbers Alone
  By Kenneth Pomeranz
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• The Value of the Humanities
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• A Historian among Genealogists
  Working on Who Do You Think You Are?
  By Jacqueline Jones
  
  
  

News

• Openings and New PhDs on the Rise:
  The 2012 Jobs Report
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Gender and Success in Academia:
  More from the Historians' Career Paths Survey
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• The Real Widows of the 19th
  Century Revealed
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
• Mankind: A Global Teach-In
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Jan Goldstein, AHA President-Elect
  for 2013
  
  
• New AHA Initiatives Will Examine Teaching and Learning, Career Paths
  By Julia Brookins
  
  
• Call for Proposals for the 128th Annual Meeting
  By Anne McCants and Peter Perdue
  
  
• Four Myths about Getting Your Annual Meeting Proposal Accepted
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• Report of The 2012 AHA Nominating Committee
  By Page Herrlinger
  
  
• A Call for Nominations
  By The 2013 Nominating Committee
  
  
  

AHA Online

• Trending on AHA Social Media
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Updates on Declassification,
  the Georgia Archives,
  and the New Congress
  By Lee White
  
  
  

Perspectives on Books

• The Vietnam Legacies
  By Marilyn Young
  
  
  

Teaching

• History Harvests: What Happens
  When Students Collect and Digitize
  the People's History?
  By William G. Thomas,
  Patrick D. Jones, and Andrew Witmer
  
  
• Failing Lessons: Tales of Disastrous Assignments
  By Richard E. Bond
  
  
• Including Sexuality as a "Useful Category of Analysis" in College History Courses
  By Ben Lowe
  
  
• Teaching Military History
  to Those Who Make It
  By Bradley L. Carter
  
  
  

National History Center

• The NHC-Council
  on Foreign Relations Partnership
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Richard Nelson Current
  
  
• Samuel B. Hand
  
  
  
  

Endnote

• The Future of the Newsmagazine
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
  

About the image on the print version: Der Sommer (1607) by Abel Grimmer. Oil on canvas.

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