From the President

• The AHA and Academic Freedom in the Age of Homeland Security, Revisited
  by Barbara Weinstein

AHA Activities

• 2007 AHA Election Results 
• The AHA Constitution: The Proposed Amended Draft
• Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation

From the Vice Presidents

• "Sites of Encounters and Cultural Production": An AHA Initiative for an Action Thématique
  by Teofilo F. Ruiz

News

• Across the World: The December 2007 Issue of the AHR is on Its Way
  by Robert A. Schneider
• An AHR Forum on History in the Digital Age
• Historians Get Rare Opportunity to Comment on Federal Policy on Oral History Projects
  by Robert B. Townsend

The Coalition Column

• News Briefs
  by Lee White

The Profession

• Building Successful Partnerships between Museums and Universities
  by Catherine M. Lewis

Viewpoints

• Save the Books!
  by James W. Cortada

Issues in Graduate Education

• Retention of Doctoral Students 
  by James Palmitessa
• Beat the Clock! Managing the Final Lap of Your PhD Program
  by Andrew McIlwaine Bell

2009 Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals: The 123rd Annual Meeting
  by Felice Lifshitz and Jerry Bentley
• New and Improved Electronic Proposal System Launched
  by Debbie Ann Doyle

Letters to the Editor

• Faculty Evaluation and the Crisis in the Historical Profession
• The AHA and Academic Freedom

In Memoriam

• Theodore L. Agnew Jr.
• Gerald R. Gill
• John Doyle Klier

Cover shows detail from Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jokisen (“Foreigners’ ship: steamship”), an 1861 print, either by Hiroshige Utagawa II or Hiroshige III, possibly depicting Commodore Perry’s ship in a Japanese harbor. Digital image courtesy the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.