38:6/ September 2000

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Interpreting the Past in a New Present: Brief Encounters with History and Historians in China
  by Eric Foner

From the Executive Director

• The AHA and Graduate Education: Old Ties, New Initiatives
  by Arnita A. Jones

News

• History Lags behind Other Disciplines: 2000 Salary Report
  by Robert B. Townsend
• Shaping the Preparation of Future Social Science and Humanities Faculty
  by Noralee Frankel
• AHA Receives Carnegie Corporation Grant to Study Graduate Education
• National History Day and Friends Mourn the Loss of David Van Tassel

Noteworthy

• Creating the History Curriculum for the 21st Century: Experiences and Issues
  by Irvin D. Solomon
• National History Day: Promoting History Education Every Day
  by Mark Robinson

Affiliated Societies

• The AHA Announces Two New Affiliates
  by Miriam E. Hauss
• WHA Launches New Competition for Schools

NCC Advocacy Update

• by Bruce Craig

Teaching

Contributing Editor: Annette Atkins

• The Role of Journal Writing in Historical Thinking
  by Antonio Cantu

Viewpoints

• Institutional Review Boards Have a Chilling Effect on Oral History
  by Linda Shopes

AHA Activities

• AHA Launches Study of Graduate Education
  by Thomas Bender
• Taking Stock: Five Years of Editing the AHR
  by Michael Grossberg
• The Mission of AHA's Task Force on Graduate Education
• AHA Statement in Support of Labor Rights in Graduate Education
• AHA Council Decisions, May 2000
• AHA Announces Jameson and NASA Fellows
• What Is the Gutenberg-e Program?
  by Robert Darnton

Letters to the Editor

• Arnold H. Price on the Gettysburg Battlefield National Park
• J. M. Mancini and Christopher McKenna on Eric Foner's reflections on diversity in history
• Martha Hodes and Ronald J. Grele on the historian and public(s)
• Benjamin Johnson and Deanna Heath on historians and the job market

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