49:9 / December 2011

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Historians at Work, III: Public History
  By Anthony Grafton
  

From the Executive Director

• Historical Sensibility
  and Civil Society
  By Jim Grossman
  

News

• 2011 AHA Election Results

• What's in the December AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider

• In Case You Missed It . . .
  By Elisabeth Grant

• Help Shape the Next International Congress of Historical Science
  By Joel Harrington
  

The Profession

• Mapping the Contours of the History Profession: Three Perspectives
  By Jim Grossman

• The Ecology of the History Job: Shifting Realities in a Fluid Market
  By Robert B. Townsend

• The Career Question in History
  By Edward J. Balleisen

• History Matters
  By Alexandra M. Lord

• A Day in the Life of a Community College Professor
  By Natalie Kimbrough

• Another Word on Job-Market Etiquette
  By Dana M. Polanichka
  

The 126th Annual Meeting

• Search Committees:
  Help Your Candidates
  Please Tell Us Your Interview Location
  By Liz Townsend
  

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals:
  The 2013 Annual Meeting
  By Paul Sutter and John McNeill
  

The Coalition Column

• A Well-Rounded Education:
  At What Price?
  By Lee White

Member News

• December 2011
  

Teaching

• Courage and Social Justice: History Students Engage New York's Immigrant and Refugee Communities
  By Patricia Moynagh
  and Lori R. Weintrob

• Instilling Civic Responsibility
  in the Classroom
  By Rebecca Bates

• Building Community to Engage Community: The College Museum as a Site of Civic Engagement
  By Susan Shifrin
  

National History Center

• The National History Center at the Annual Meeting
  By Marian J. Barber
  

Letters to the Editor

• On Reviewing Manuscripts

• Doing "Real Work"

• A Very Modest Proposal?

• History Is Worth Fighting For:
  Where Is the AHA?

• Plan B: The Debate Continues . . .

In Memoriam

• John Morton Blum

• Joseph Gagliano

• Robert W. Johansson

• Fritz Klein

• John L. Loos
  

The cover shows the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Community Museum, in Washington, D.C. Some aspects of the intersections between historians, museums, and communities are examined in the essays by Anthony Grafton and Susan Shifrin in this issue. Photo courtesy the Smithsonian Institution.

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