35:1/ January 1997

Contents of the online version of the print edition

Perspectives began publishing entire issues online in 1998. The following articles were
published in the print version, but most have not been converted to digital form. If interest
is expressed, we may be able to convert earlier articles as time and rights permissions allow.
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From the Director's Desk

• Advocacy and the Historian at Home
  by Sandria B. Freitag

Noteworthy

• The 1996 Elections and the National Endowment for the Humanities
  by John Hammer

Teaching Innovations

Contributing Editor: Robert Blackey

• Teaching Historiography and Methodology: The Electronic French Revolution
  by Jack R. Censer

Computers and Software

Contributing Editor: Janice Reiff

• Multimedia Presentations: Lecturing in the Age of MTV
  by Saul Cornell and Diane Dagefoerde
  
  
• History on Usenet: The People's Forum
  by Mark Pitcavage
  
  
• Historians and the Web: A Guide
  by Andrew McMichael, Michael O'Malley, and Roy Rosenzweig
  
  
• Using a Web Browser
  by Andrew McMichael, Michael O'Malley, and Roy Rosenzweig
  
  
• Creating Your Own Web Page
  by Andrew McMichael, Michael O'Malley, and Roy Rosenzweig
  
  
• The H-Net Teaching Resources Archive
  by Sara Tucker and Mark Kornbluh

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Robert Brent Toplin

• Lessons in the Dark: Teaching the Middle Ages with Film
  by Lorraine Attreed and James F. Powers

Public History

Contributing Editors: John David Smith and William F. Willingham

• Is There Life After Graduate School? Maybe in Public History
  by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth

Viewpoints

• Max Planck Institute for History Threatened
  by David Sabean
  
  
• In Favor of Unions for Graduate Students
  by Gregory M. Beyrer

AHA Activities

• Statement on Affirmative Action
• AHA Teaching Division Focused on a Variety of Areas in 1996
  by Peter N. Stearns
  
  
• New Leadership for the AHA
  
  
• Final Call for Papers for 1998 Annual Meeting
  
  
• AHA Welcomes New Staff Members

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller

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