45:7/October 2007

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Washington for Historians
  by Barbara Weinstein
  
  

News

• Promoting Progress:
  A Report on the Fifth Workshop
  for Directors of Graduate Studies
  by David Darlington
  
  
• Classifying the Discipline: New AHA
  Policies on Membership Categories
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• What's in the New AHR?
  by Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• Proposals Invited for 2010 CISH Meeting in Amsterdam
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Nominations Invited for AHA Offices
  Terms Beginning January 2009
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Statement on Diversity in AHA
  Nominations and Appointments
  
  

122nd Annual Meeting

• Making Plans for the 122nd Annual Meeting? Some Useful Reminders
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Information and Accommodations
  for Persons with Disabilities
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Presidential Sessions at the
  122nd Annual Meeting
  by Barbara Weinstein
  
  
• The Job Register:
  Information for Interviewers
  
  
• Research Repositories
  in Washington, D.C.
  by Barbara Bair
  
  
• Tours Organized by the
  Local Arrangements Committee
  
  
• Registration Forms
  
  
• Hotel Reservatons and Information
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Building on a Hundred Years of Solidity: The NPS Plans for the Future
  by Lee White
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  

Viewpoints

• The "P" Word
  by Caroline Walker Bynum
  
  

National History Center

• 2007 Seminar on Decolonization:
  A Report
  
  

The Profession

• Letters of Recommendation:
  Some Songs of Experience
  by Anthony Grafton
  
  
• Letters of Recommendation:
  Problems and Practices
  by Robert Darnton
  
  
• Letters of Recommendation:
  The Art and the Science
  by Paula Findlen
  
  
• Letters of Recommendation:
  Haikus or Hagiographies?
  by Guido Ruggiero
  
  
• America's National Park System:
  Sunset or a New Dawn?
  by Art Gómez
  
  
• Confronting a Crisis in the
  Historical Profession
  by George J. Sanchez
  
  
• Equity for Minority Historians
  in the Academic Workplace:
  A Guide to Best Practices
  by the Committee on Minority Historians
  
  

2009 Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  The 123rd Annual Meeting
  by Felice Lifshitz and Jerry Bentley
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• The Historian in the Public Sphere
  
  

Members

• October, 2007
  
  

In Memoriam

• Saul Benison
  
  
• Madeline Russell Robinton
  
  
• Robert Isherwood
  
  

Cover design by Chris Hale. Image is of “The National Parks Preserve Wildlife,” a poster created in 1939 by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version
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