38:5/ May 2000

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Out of the Ivory Tower: Historians and the Public(s)
  by Eric Foner

News

• History Cooperative Takes Off
• AHA Members Take Top History and Nonfiction Prizes
• Gutenberg-e Workshop Sets the Scene
• George Mason University to Establish History PhD Program
• Nazi War Criminal Records Group Solicits Assistance

Film and Media

Contributing Editor: Robert Brent Toplin

• The Wonders of My Africa: An Africanist Historian's View of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Wonders of the African World
  by Joseph C. Miller
• Africa through a Western Optic: Wonders of the African World
  by Colin Palmer

Letters to the Editor

• Robert E. Wright, D. A. Jeremy Telman, Dino DelGallo, and Marshall Poe on historians and the job market
• Earl A. Reitan on the In Memoriam column

In Memoriam

• Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
• Benjamin I. Schwartz
• Albert E. Van Dusen

AHA Activities

• AHA Council Decisions, January 2000

Historians and the Public(s)

A Collection of Essays Assembled and Edited by Guest Editor David S. Trask

• Historians and the Public(s)
  by David Trask
• Popular Uses of History in the United States: Professional Historians and Popular Historymakers
  by Roy Rosenzweig
• Popular Uses of History in the United States: Individuals in History
  by David Thelen
• The Struggle for History at the Precollegiate Level
  by John Pyne
• The Private Sector and Public Higher Education
  by Charles A. Zappia
• World History and the Public: The National Standards Debate
  by Craig A. Lockard
• Politics and Standards: The Illinois Story
  by Arthur Zilversmit
• Good History Is Not Enough
  by Harry R. Rubenstein
• A News Service by Historians
  by James M. Banner Jr.
• Connecting to the Public: History through the Internet
  by Patricia Seed
• Educating America: The Historian's Responsibility to Native Americans and the Public
  by Angela Cavender Wilson
• Professional Issues beyond the Classroom
  by Michael J. Devine

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Page Putnam Miller
• We Bid You Farewell, Page Putnam Miller ... You Will Be Missed!
  by Arnita A. Jones