50:6 / September 2012

In This Issue . . .

From the President

• Two Cheers for the Whig Interpretation of History
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Political Facts
  and Historical Thinking
  By James Grossman
  and Allen Mikaelian
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• Brought Back to Life by the AHA: "Change Over Time," Gifford Pinchot, and Me
  By Patty Limerick
  
  
  

News

• Underpaid and Underappreciated:
  A Portrait of Part-time Faculty
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• National History Day
  Competition Draws 2,800 Students
  for the National Finals
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
• 2012 NASA and Jameson
  Fellowships Awarded
  By Nike Nivar
  
  
• Landmark Decision on Electronic Reserves for Courses
  By Michael Les Benedict
  
  
• Scholar-in-Exile Finds
  a Temporary Haven
  By Gabrielle Spiegel
  
  
• Changes in the Publications Team
  at the AHA
  
  
• State Department's HAC Report: Superb Leadership Struggles with Release of Materials
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Decisions of the AHA Council,
  June 2012
  
  
• The Tuning Project's
  Summer Meeting
  By Julia Brookins
  
  
• Donors to the Association,
  July 1, 2011–June 30, 2012
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Transparency, Declassification,
  and the Obama Presidency
  By Lee White
  
  
  

National History Center

• Historical Perspectives
  on Space Policy
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
• Applications Invited for the Eighth International Seminar on Decolonization
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• Loving and History
  
• On Historians, Tuning, and Markets (with James Grossman's Response )
  
• A Legislative Threat
  to Social Studies?
  

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Getting Ready for the
  127th Annual Meeting
  By Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Registration | Hotel Rates and Map
  
  

The Art of History

• On Changing My Mind
  By James Oakes
  
  
  

The Profession

• Strangelove for the Classroom
  How I Learned to Stop Worrying
  and Love Retirement
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Does Size Matter?
  By Sarah Maza
  
  
  

The 128th Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals
  for the 128th Annual Meeting
  By Anne McCants and Peter Perdue
  
  
• "Disagreement, Debate, Discussion"
  The Theme of the 128th Annual Meeting
  By Kenneth Pomeranz,
  Anne McCants, and Peter Perdue
  
  
• Annual Meeting Guidelines
  
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• North American Conference on British Studies Is Seeking a New Editorial Team
  
  
• North American Society for Oceanic History Announces Book Awards
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Jerry H. Bentley
  
  
• Andrew Bunie [Buni]
  
  
• Michael Fellman
  
  
• Peter Novick
  
  
  

The photo on the front cover is courtesy the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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