49:3 / March 2011

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Loneliness and Freedom
  By Anthony Grafton
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• History, Public Culture, and the Commemoration of the Civil War
  By Jim Grossman
  
  
  

News

• New History PhDs in 2009 Surged to Second- Highest Level in 32 Years
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2011
  
  
• Donors to the Association November 1, 2010–December 31, 2010
  
  
  

The Profession

• Telephone and Video Interviews for Academic Hiring: Some Guidelines
  By the AHA's Professional Division
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• News Briefs
  By Lee White
  
  
  

National History Center

• Participants Selected for the Summer 2011 Seminar on Decolonization
  
  
  

Members

• March 2011
  
  
  

International

• The State They Are In: History and Public Education in England
  By James Vernon
  
  
  

Teaching

• Making it Different: Teaching Early American History Honors at a Community College
  By Brad Massey
  
  
• The D.C. Everest Oral History Project
  By Paul Aleckson
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• David Burner
  
• Robert McCune Kingdon
  
  
  

The image on the front cover is from the 2006 film adaptation of The History Boys (dir. Nicholas Hytner). From left to right: Dominic Cooper (as Dakin), Sacha Dhawan (as Akhtar), James Corden (as Timms), Andrew Knott (as Lockwood), and Samuel Anderson (as Crowther). Courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures / Photofest.

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