36:1/ January 1998

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the Director's Desk

• Reaching beyond the AHA: Of Adjuncts and Other Issues
  by Sandria B. Freitag

News

• Conference on Growing Use of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty
  by Robert B. Townsend
• Another Honor for John Hope Franklin
  by Vernon Horn
• The Kunz Tenure Decision at Yale: "Utterly Inexplicable"
  by Susan W. Gillespie
• Joseph Ellis's American Sphinx Wins the National Book Award

Teaching

Contributing Editor: David Trask

• Scaffolding Research Skills in a Nonresearch Class
  by Carole Srole

Noteworthy

• The Report of the Advisory Committee on Historical Documentation to the U.S. Department of State
  by Warren F. Kimball

Professional Issues

Contributing Editor: Gail Savage

• Good Practices and Common Goals: The Conference on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty
  by Barbara N. Ramusack

Archives and Research

Contributing Editor: Donald B. Simpson

• From Chaos to Archives: The Records of the American Occupational Therapy Association
  by Joel Berg

 

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Robert Brent Toplin

• Fact, Fiction, and Film: Frankenheimer's George Wallace
  by Dan T. Carter

Public History

• History in the Public Arena: The AHA and the Smithsonian
  by Morey Rothberg

Viewpoints

• Should We All Become Public Historians?—Some Responses

AHA Activities

• Annual Report of the Teaching Division
  by Peter N. Stearns
• Criteria for Standards in History/Social Studies/Social Sciences
• Guidelines for the Preparation, Evaluation, and Selection of History Textbooks
• Report of the AHA 1997 Nominating Committee
  by Arthur Zilversmit
• 1998 AHA Election: Nominations Invited
  by Lillie Johnson Edwards

Members

• Member Activities

Letters to the Editor

• Norman B. Ferris on gender and history
• Beth Barton Schweiger on adjuncts and the job market
• Alfred Elkins on JFK and the AHA
• Julie Leininger Pycior on "minority" history

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller

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