49:5 / May 2011

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President
and the Executive Director

• The Imperative
  of Public Participation
  By Anthony Grafton
  and Jim Grossman
  
  
  

News

• History Faculty Salaries Fall Behind Inflation and the Rest of Academia
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Eric Foner Receives the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• AHA Deplores Efforts to Intimidate William Cronon
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• What Does the Fiscal 2011 Budget Hold for the History and Archives Communities?
  By Lee White
  
  
• Board Says No to Casino
  on Hallowed Ground
  
  
  

Focus: Political History Today

• Political History Today: Plural Perspectives on a Protean Creature
  By Pillarisetti Sudhir
  
  
• The Interdisciplinarity
  of Political History
  By Julian E. Zelizer
  
  
• Political History
  after the Cultural Turn
  By Steven Pincus
  and William Novak
  
  
• The History of Feminism
  Is Political History
  By Karen Offen
  
  
• Optimism and Political History:
  A Perspective from India
  By Durba Ghosh
  
  
• Histories of Politics after Political History: Reflections from South Asian Historiography
  By Vinayak Chaturvedi
  
  
• Researching Representation:
  The Case of Early Modern Europe
  By Sean T. Perrone
  
  
• "On Such a Full Sea Are We Now Afloat": Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations History Across the Water’s Edge
  By Jason Parker
  
  
• Diplomatic History
  and the Political Science Wars
  By David Paull Nickles
  
  
• The Business in Between:
  U.S. Foreign Relations
  and Domestic Politics
  By Christopher R. W. Dietrich

Focus: Political History Today

• The Digital Revolution and Teaching about and Political History
  By Gretchen Adams
  
  
• Violence in Political History:
  The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics of Power and Resistance
  By Kellie Carter Jackson
  
  
• Searching out the Sacred
  in U.S. Political History
  By Darren Dochuk
  
  
• Putting the People Back into Politics Teaching Political History
  with Images
  By Rachel Burstein
  
  
• Using Digital Resources to Teach U.S.
  in the Middle East
  By E. Thomas Ewing
  
  
• Research Resources
  for Diplomatic History
  By Carl Ashley
  
  
• Political Resources Waiting
  to Be Mined
  By Donald A. Ritchie
  
  
• Revisiting the Early American Republic: The New Nation Votes Database Enables a New Political History
  By Rosemarie Zagarri
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• John Philip Dawson
  
  
• Nora Faires
  
  
• Elisabeth Glaser
  
  
• Paul Kenneth Longmore
  
  
• Donald George Quataert
  
  
• Harry Rosenberg
  
  
  
  

The cover of the print version shows landless dalits (oppressed castes) demonstrating in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, in favor of land reforms. December 2005 photograph by P. Goutham, © THE HINDU. Reproduced with permission. The weaving of dalit politics into India’s (and of humanity’s) political history is discussed in two of the essays in this thematically focused issue of Perspectives on History.

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