On Completing 50: Self Reflections
- A Perspective on Perspectives
James W. Cortada | Dec 1, 2012
- Memories of Development: Fifty Years with the AHA
Alice Kessler-Harris | Dec 1, 2012
- A Half Century with the AHA
Peter N. Stearns | Dec 1, 2012
On the Cover
Celebrating 50 years of Perspectives on History. The cover design is by Chris Hale.
From the President
- And Gladly Teach
William Cronon | Dec 1, 2012
From the Executive Director
- The Tasks before Us
James Grossman | Dec 1, 2012
News
- What Makes a Successful Academic Career in History? A Field Report from the Higher Ranks
Robert B. Townsend | Dec 1, 2012
- What's in the December AHR?
Robert A. Schneider | Dec 1, 2012
- Results of the 2012 AHA Election
Page Herrlinger | Dec 1, 2012
- New Benefits for AHA Members: Members Can Access the OED and Versatile PhD
AHA Staff | Dec 1, 2012
From the Vice Presidents
- Tipping Points in Teaching: A Call for Collaboration
Patricia Limerick | Dec 1, 2012
The Future of the Discipline
- The Future of the Profession
Benjamin Alpers | Dec 1, 2012
- Time to Retire?
Caroline Walker Bynum | Dec 1, 2012
- Human Agency in the Anthropocene
Dipesh Chakrabarty | Dec 1, 2012
- African History/Global History
Frederick Cooper | Dec 1, 2012
- The Future of Local Historical Societies
Debbie Ann Doyle | Dec 1, 2012
- Diplomatic History's Ill-Deserved Reputation and Bright Future
Jeffrey A. Engel | Dec 1, 2012
- The Futures of Native American History in the United States
Pekka Hämäläinen | Dec 1, 2012
- Academic Journals in the Digital Era: An Editor's Reflections
Ethan Kleinberg | Dec 1, 2012
- The Appeal of Transnational History
Lisa A. Lindsay | Dec 1, 2012
- Learning from Latin America
Christine Mathias | Dec 1, 2012
- Promises and Perils of Transnational History
Mae M. Ngai | Dec 1, 2012
- Historians in Wikipedia: Building an Open, Collaborative History
Lori Byrd Phillips and Dominic McDevitt-Parks | Dec 1, 2012
- Wishful Thinking
Joan Wallach Scott | Dec 1, 2012
- Beyond the Longue Duree: Human History in Deep Time
Daniel Lord Smail | Dec 1, 2012
- Culture and Economic Development: Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow
Francesca Trivellato | Dec 1, 2012
- Teaching History in the 21st-Century Community College
Charles A. Zappia | Dec 1, 2012
- History: Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation between Lynn Hunt and Jacques Revel
Lynn Hunt and Jacques Revel | Dec 1, 2012
National History Center
- Washington History Seminar Turns Three
Marian J. Barber | Dec 1, 2012
The 127th Annual Meeting
- Search Committees: Help Your Candidates
Liz Townsend | Dec 1, 2012
AHA Online
- Trending on AHA's Social Media
Vanessa Varin | Dec 1, 2012
Letters to the Editor
- Tragedy, Memory, History
Louis H. Blumengarten | Dec 1, 2012
- Remembering Veterans
Evelyn Edson | Dec 1, 2012
In Memoriam
- Stuart Hilwig (1968–2012)
Carole Fink | Dec 1, 2012
- Richard W. Lyman (1923–2012)
Peter Stansky | Dec 1, 2012
- Michael Wreszin (1926–2012)
Frank Warren | Dec 1, 2012
- Henry F. May (1915–2012)
David A. Hollinger | Dec 1, 2012
- Anna K. Nelson (1933–2012)
Arnita A. Jones, Maeva Marcus, Page Putnam Miller, and Trudy Peterson | Dec 1, 2012
Endnotes
- Reflections of a Retiring Editor
Pillarisetti Sudhir | Dec 1, 2012