50:4 / April 2012

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Loving History
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Tuning in to the History Major
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

News

• What's in the April AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• The 2012 Bancroft Prizes Go to Three AHA Members
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Nominations for the
  2012 AHA Election
  
  
  

Technology

• Teaching Tiananmen
  Using Wikipedia in the Undergraduate Classroom to Learn How to Write about Recent History
  By Jeremy Brown
  and Benedicte Melanie Olsen
  
  
• Blogging in the Classroom
  Using a Blog as a Supplemental Resource
  By Sarah A. Curtis, Jason Lahman, and Brian J. Griffith
  
  
  

Research

• Oral History, Policy History, and Information Abundance and Scarcity
  By Patrick Sharma
  
  
  

Timelines

• Meet Nellie Neilson
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• News Briefs
  By Lee White
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies, Take 19:
  Poshek Fu on Hong Kong Films
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• Cinema, Cold War, and Hong Kong
  By Poshek Fu
  
  
  

National History Center

• Congressional Briefings Series
  to Be Revived
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• CEHS Seeks Editor for Central European History
  
  
• Society for Military History Announces Its Annual Awards
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Lee Benson
  
  
• Philip L. Kintner
  
  
  
  
  

The image on the front cover of the print version shows a view of Tiananmen Square, circa 1901. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons; composition by Chris Hale. See the related article by Jeremy Brown and Benedicte Melanie Olsen.

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