35:8/ November 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
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From the President's Desk

• Networks, Knots, Historians, and the Public Good
  by Joyce Appleby

From the Director's Desk

• The "Endangered Monograph": Why Aren't Scholars Lying Awake Worrying?
  by Sandria B. Freitag

News

• The End of the Monograph? Conference Explores Crisis in Publishing
  by Amy Smith Bell
  
  
• Historic Victory in Japanese Court
  by Kyle Graham

Noteworthy

• The State of History Education: History Standards and the States
  by Loretta Lobes

Teaching

Contributing Editor: David Trask

• The History Course Portfolio
  by William W. Cutler III
  
  
• Training the Teaching Assistant: Creating a Teaching Community among Graduate Students
  by Mary Cunningham, Stephen Kercher, Meg Meneghel, and David Pace

Annual Meeting

• Highlights of the 1998 Annual Meeting
  
  
• Seattle: Where the Old and the New Meet
  by Maureen Murphy Nutting and Shirley J. Yee
  
  
• Program Committee Chairs Report for the 1998 Meeting
  by Sara M. Evans and Ann Waltner

Viewpoints

• What Is a TA?
  by Daniel E. Crowe and Leslee K. Gilbert
  
  
• Has "Minority" History Transformed the Historical Discourse?
  by Patricia Nelson Limerick
  
  
• Minority Histories,
  Subaltern Pasts
  by Dipesh Chakrabarty

International

• Public History in New Zealand
  by Janelle Warren-Findley
  
  
• Japanese History in the Dock: Victory for a Viewpoint
  by Masao Nishikawa

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller

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