48:4 /April 2010

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Fiat Lux: Public Funding and the Humanities
  By Barbara D. Metcalf
  
  
  

News

• James Grossman to Succeed Arnita Jones as AHA Executive Director
  
  
• Bancroft Prizewinners Announced
  
  
• Humanities Advocacy Day 2010
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• What's in the April AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• Four Historians Receive National Humanities Medals
  
  
• Change Is Coming to the AHA
  
  
• Natalie Zemon Davis Awarded Holberg Prize
  
  

AHA Activities

• Council Approves Creation
  of Interest Groups
  
  
• Nominations for the
  AHA 2010 Election
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Status Reports on Transparency in the Federal Government
  By Lee White
  
  
  

The Art of History

• In Defense of Academic
  History Writing
  By Gordon Wood
  
  
  

The Profession

• Teaching at a Community College:
  Some Personal Observations
  By John H. Ball
  
  
  

124th Annual Meeting

• Disability History at the
  124th Annual Meeting
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Byzantine Studies:
  A Discussion of Methodologies
  By Eugenia Russell
  
  
  

Issues in Graduate Education

• Thinking of Moving Abroad?
  How to Begin Applying for
  Foreign Jobs
  By Brett Barrett
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Beyond Pluralism
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Louis Harlan
  
  
• Hans L. Trefousse
  
  
• Marli F. Weiner
  
  
  

The image on the cover is an oil on canvas painting titled L’Ecrit Dure by Bob Lescaux (1999); digital copy courtesy
The Bridgeman Art Library International.

Published by the American Historical Association,
Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version
of Perspectives on History (ISSN: 0743-7021).