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The cover shows landless dalits (oppressed castes) demonstrating in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, in favor of land reforms. December 2005 photograph by P. Goutham, © THE HINDU. Reproduced with permission. The weaving of dalit politics into India’s (and of humanity’s) political history is discussed in two of the essays in this thematically focused issue of Perspectives on History.

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Staff

Pillarisetti Sudhir, editor
David Darlington, associate editor
Christian Hale, production manager and layout
Liz Townsend, editorial assistant
Vernon Horn, internet projects manager
Elisabeth Grant, web content editor

From the AHA

May 1, 2011

From the Association

AHA Deplores Efforts to Intimidate William Cronon
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May 1, 2011

From the Executive Director, From the President

The Imperative of Public Participation

Other Articles

May 1, 2011

Histories of Politics after Political History: Reflections from South Asian Historiography
Detail from a Mughal miniature showing Emperor Akbar receiving the Akbar Nama from Abul Fazl. India's political history, traditionally replete with the biographical narratives of the elites, has moved away from such "high politics" to considerations of the politics of marginal groups. Digital image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

May 1, 2011

Optimism and Political History: A Perspective from India
Source: Based on a simple tabulation of faculty listed in AHA's Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians in the indicated years.

May 1, 2011

From the Editor

Plural Perspectives on a Protean Creature

May 1, 2011

The Business in Between: U.S. Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics

May 1, 2011

Diplomatic History and the Political Science Wars

May 1, 2011

“On Such a Full Sea Are We Now Afloat”: Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations History across the Water’s Edge
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May 1, 2011

Researching Representation: The Case of Early Modern Europe

May 1, 2011

The History of Feminism Is Political History

May 1, 2011

Features

Political History after the Cultural Turn

May 1, 2011

The Interdisciplinarity of Political History
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May 1, 2011

Revisiting the Early American Republic: The New Nation Votes Database Enables a New Political History
East Front of the U.S. Capitol. Photo courtesy the Architect of the Capitol.

May 1, 2011

Political Resources Waiting to Be Mined
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is a rich resource for diplomatic historians. Photo composition by Chris Hale

May 1, 2011

Research Resources for Diplomatic History

May 1, 2011

Using Digital Resources to Teach U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Figure 1: Engraving by Paul Revere, showing the massacre in King Street, Boston, on March 5, 1770. Digital image courtesy the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

May 1, 2011

Putting the People Back into Politics: Teaching Political History with Images
Photograph of a church on the Delaware in New York, taken in July 1943 by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. Digital image courtesy the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

May 1, 2011

Searching out the Sacred in U.S. Political History
Most major benchmarks in revolve around the markers of such violent events, declares the author. The image shows an 18th-century painting of the storming of the Bastille; courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

May 1, 2011

Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics of Power and Resistance
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy the National Park Service.

May 1, 2011

The Digital Revolution and Teaching about Memory and Political History
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May 1, 2011

News

Board Says No to Casino on Hallowed Ground
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May 1, 2011

News

What Does the Fiscal 2011 Budget Hold for the History and Archives Communities?
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May 1, 2011

In Memoriam

John Philip Dawson (1928-2010)
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May 1, 2011

In Memoriam

Harry Rosenberg (1923-2010)
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May 1, 2011

In Memoriam

Donald George Quataert (1941–2011)
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May 1, 2011

In Memoriam

Paul Kenneth Longmore (1946-2010)
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May 1, 2011

In Memoriam

Elisabeth Glaser (1954-2010)
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May 1, 2011

In Memoriam

Nora Faires (1949-2011)
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May 31, 2011

News, Perspectives Daily

Historians among 2011 ACLS Fellows and Grant Winners

May 30, 2011

Perspectives Daily

American Historical Review – June 2011
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May 25, 2011

Perspectives Daily

New Report Finds U.S. History Majors Highest Earners in Humanities
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May 24, 2011

AHA Annual Meeting, Behind the Scenes at the AHA, Perspectives Daily

Vote on the 2017 AHA Annual Meeting Location

May 23, 2011

Perspectives Daily

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A New Nation Votes

May 17, 2011

Perspectives Daily

A New Nation Votes: Election Data from 1787 to 1825
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May 15, 2011

News, Perspectives Daily

British Request for Oral History Records Raises Complex and Difficult Questions
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May 4, 2011

News, Perspectives Daily

James Percoco Inducted into National Teachers Hall of Fame
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May 2, 2011

Perspectives Daily

A Historian’s Historian
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May 2, 2011

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Perspectives on History – May 2011

News

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May 1, 2011

Features

History Faculty Salaries Fall Behind Inflation and the Rest of Academia
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May 1, 2011

News

Eric Foner Receives the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History