43:5/ May 2005

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• A Historian's Thoughts at Commencement
  by James J. Sheehan
  

News

• The 2004–05 Salary Report:
  History Slips at Private Institutions, but Posts Modest Gains at Publics
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• National History Center Launches Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series
  by Carl Ashley
  
  
• David Hackett Fischer Reeceives Pulitzer Prize

AHA Activities

• A Workshop for Directors of Graduate Studies
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Congress Wrestles with FOIA Reform
  by Bruce Craig



• News Briefs
  

Viewpoints

• A Modest Proposal
  by Peter N. Stearns

Teaching

• Preparing Non-Historians to Teach History: The Coaching History Playbook
  by Bill Shuttlesworth and
  William Edgington
  
  

Members

• Members, May 2005
  

Archives and Research

• Conversations with Orion
  by Carlo Ginzburg
  (Translated by Giovanni Zanalda)
  
  
• Some Sources for African American Historical Research at the National Archives
  by Walter B. Hill Jr.

History and Technology

• Were There Blog Enough and Time
  by Ralph E. Luker
  
  
• Blogging: It's Easier Than You Think!
  by Manan Ahmed

In Memoriam

• Nadine Ishitani Hata
  
  
• LaWanda Fenalson Cox
  
  
• Robert Lunan Cruden
  
  
• John N. Felten
  
  
• Paul O'Grady
  
  
• Hermann-Josef Rupieper
  
  
• Thomas C. Smith
  
  
• David Spring
  
  
• Willie Walker
  
  
  

Nota Bene

Please note that Londa Schiebinger, member of the Committee for the Leo Gershoy Award, listed on page 10 of the printed version of the March Perspectives, is now at Stanford University. This has been corrected in the online version.