50:5 / May 2012

In This Issue . . .

From the President

• Breaking Apart, Putting Together
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Why Investing in the NEH is Vital:
  A Plea to Congress
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

News

• History Salaries Lag behind Inflation and the Rest of Academia
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Humanities Advocates Testify
  for Increased NEH Funding
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
• AHA's Professional Division Issues Statement on Online Publication of Dissertations
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• OAH Report Urges National Park Service to "Recommit to History"
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
• Looking Forward to New Orleans
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• History E-books May Be Good for Reading, but Not (Yet) for Reviewing
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies, Take 20: Marshall Eakin Looks at Brazilian Identities through a Cinematic Lens
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands as a Meditation on Mestiçagem in Brazil
  By Marshall C. Eakin
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Advocacy Begins at Home
  By Lee White
  
  
  

National History Center

• A Global Forum without Walls
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• On Professional Boredom
  and Teaching History
  
  
• More on "Professional Boredom"
  
  
• On Getting It Right
  
  
  

Members News

• May 2012
  
  
  

In Case You Missed It . . .

• May 2012

Forum: Possibilities of Pedagogy

• The Current State of History Education: "One Big School House"
  By Karen Halttunen
  
  
• A New Blueprint for History Education
  By Tuyen Tran and Beth Slutsky
  
  
• The California History-Social Science Project
  By Nancy McTygue
  
  
• The End of History Education
  in Elementary Schools?
  By Bruce VanSledright,
  Kimberly Reddy, and Brie Walsh
  
  
• The State of K–12 History Teaching: Challenges to Innovation
  By Lisa Hutton, Tim Keirn,
  and Dave Neumann
  
  
• Functional Grammar in Support
  of Literacy in History
  By Mary J. Schleppegrell
  
  
• Sites of Encounter in World History
  By Nicole Gilbertson
  
  
• Teaching with Primary Sources:
  A Library of Congress Program
  By Stacie Moats
  
  
• Preparing History Teachers to Develop Young People's Historical Thinking
  By Terrie Epstein
  
  
• Toward Disciplinary Writing in History: Preparing the Next Generation
  By Chauncey Monte-Sano
  
  
  

Reader Survey

• 2012 Perspectives on History and Perspectives Online Reader Survey
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Bernard Bellush
  
  
• Paul Boyer
  
  
• Domenico Sella
  
  
  
  

The artwork on the front cover of the print version
is by Chris Hale.

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