News

• National Humanities Alliance Meets in Washington, D.C.
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
• John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009
• New Film on Secret Meetings of World War II Will Premiere on PBS in May
• The Making of WWII Behind Closed Doors: A Conversation with Laurence Rees and Robert Dallek
• What's in the April AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
• Museum Professionals Gather for First Museums Advocacy Day
  By Debbie Ann Doyle

AHA Activities

• AHA Nominations for the 2009 Election
  By Sharon K. Tune
• Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriages Established for San Diego Annual Meeting
  By Karen Halttunen

Noteworthy

• Preserving Our History: Unfinished Business at Foggy Bottom
  By Wm. Roger Louis
• History in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center
  By Richard A. Baker

The Coalition Column

• Omnibus Appropriations Bill Enacted
  By Lee White

Timelines

• The AHA in the Second World War: Trying to Win the Peace with Wartime Pamphlets 
  By Robert B. Townsend

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies: Take 10 
  By Robert Brent Toplin
• The Hot Dynasty: The Tudors on Film and TV
  By Cynthia Herrup

Letters to the Editor

• On Rethinking Graduate History Education
• On Age Discrimination
• On Politics and the 1968 Annual Meeting

Affiliated Societies

• Languages and the Study of History: A Report of the Annual Meeting Session 
  By Thomas Adams

Election 2008: How "Historic" Was It?

• How Historic Is the 2008 Election? Introductory Remarks
  By Eric Foner
• A Remarkable Election
  By Jacqueline Jones
  
• Election 2008: Three Unique Factors
  By David Levering Lewis
  
• What Makes an Election Historic ... And Has That Happened in 2008?
  By Julian E. Zelizer

Teaching

Forum on Capstone Courses

• Introduction
  By Noralee Frankel
• Placing the Senior Capstone Course within the History Program
  By Timothy L. Schroer
• History in the Trenches: Teaching the Undergraduate Capstone Course
  By Mary Stockwell
  
• How the Capstone Course Changed the Curriculum at Sienna College
  By Wendy Pojmann, Bruce Eelman, Barbara Reeves-Ellington, and Scott K. Taylor

National History Center

• Participants Selected for the Summer 2009 Decolonization Seminar
• NHC Director Wm. Roger Louis Is Selected as Professor of the Year at University of Texas

In Memoriam

• Bruce F. Adams
• Jon Gjerde
• Enno E. Kraehe
• Edward Carl Thaden
• Lawrence D. Walker

 
The cover photo on the print edition is by M.Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force and is courtesy of the Defense Visual Information Directorate.