43:2/ February 2005

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• The AHA and Its Publics ~ Part I
  by James J. Sheehan

News

• Survey Shows Marked Drop in History PhDs

by Robert Townsend


• Nine New Members to Join the National Council on the Humanities



• NEH Offers “Landmarks of American History” Workshops for K–12 Teachers



• Historian Receives Mellon Award



• NRC Survey of Research Doctoral Programs Delayed



• NEH Announces a Wide Variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes

The Coalition Column

• The 109th Congress Convenes: New Cabinet Appointees Named,
  by Bruce Craig



• News Briefs
  
  

Teaching

• Reinventing the Survey: Pedagogical Strategies for Engagement

by Stuart D. Sears

NOTE: We regret that because of production delays and holiday mail pressures on the US Postal Service, the December 2004 issue of Perspectives mailed with the annual meeting supplement reached many members late, some issues apparently arriving in the middle of January. While we hope that there will be no recurrence of such delays, we would like to remind members that almost the entire content of each issue is made available online at www.historians.org/perspectives soon after it is mailed out. The job ads are, in fact, posted online even earlier (access being restricted to members).

Public History

• Developing Collaborative Public History Programs
  by Ann McCleary and Pam Meister

Affiliated Societies

• AAH Offers Travel Grants to Students and Junior Faculty
  
  
• American Printing History Association
  
  
• The American Catholic History Association Announces Its Awards
  
  
• AASLH Announces 2005 Awards Program
  
  
• AARHMS Election Results
  
  
• Czechoslovak History Conference Update
  
  

In Memoriam

• Walther Kirchner
  
  
• Erving E. Beauregard
  
  
• Hsi-Huey Liang
  
  
  

The cover shows a water feature at the northwest corner of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Photo (by R.A. Whiteside, NMAI) courtesy the National Museum of the American Indian.