December 2007

Volume 45, Number 9
Contents of the online edition
Editor: Pillarisetti Sudhir
Associate Editor: David Darlington
From the President
AHA Activities
- 2007 AHA Election Results
- The AHA Constitution: The Proposed Amended Draft
- Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
From the Vice Presidents
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
The Coalition Column
- News Briefs
by
The Profession
Viewpoints
Issues in Graduate Education
- Retention of Doctoral Students
by James Palmitessa - Beat the Clock! Managing the Final Lap of Your PhD Program
by
2009 Annual Meeting
- Call for Proposals: The 123rd Annual Meeting
by Felice Lifshitz and Jerry Bentley - New and Improved Electronic Proposal System Launched
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Letters to the Editor
In Memoriam
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.