From the President

• And Gladly Teach 
  By William Cronon

From the Executive Director

• The Tasks before Us 
  By James Grossman

AHA Activities

• Results of the 2012 AHA Election
• New Benefits for AHA Members
  
• What's in the December AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider

News

• What Makes a Successful Academic Career in History? A Field Report from the Higher Ranks
  By Robert B. Townsend

From the Vice Presidents

• Tipping Points in Teaching: A Call for Collaboration
  By Patricia Limerick

On Completing 50: Self-Reflections

• Some Prefatory Notes on This Issue: Celebrating a 50th Anniversary 
  By The Editors
• A Perspective on Perspectives
  By James W. Cortada
• Memories of Development 
  By Alice Kessler-Harris
• A Half Century with the AHA
  By Peter N. Stearns

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Search Committees: Help Your Candidates 
  By Liz Townsend
  
• Registration | Hotel Rates and Map

The 128th Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals for the 128th Annual Meeting
  By Anne McCants and Peter Perdue

AHA Online

• Trending on AHA's Social Media
  By Vanessa Varin

National History Center

• Washington History Seminar Turns Three
  By Marian J. Barber

The Future of the Discipline

A Special 50th Anniversary Forum, Guest Edited by Lynn Hunt

• The Prospects of the Present 
  By Lynn Hunt
• The Future of the Profession
  By Benjamin Alpers
• Time to Retire? 
  By Caroline Walker Bynum
• Human Agency in the Anthropocene 
  By Dipesh Chakrabarty
• African History / Global History
  By Frederick Cooper
• The Future of Local Historical Societies 
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
• Diplomatic History's Ill-Deserved Reputation and Bright Future 
  By Jeffery A. Engel
• The Futures of Native American History in the United States 
  By Pekka Hämäläinen
• Academic Journals in the Digital Era: An Editor's Reflections 
  By Ethan Kleinberg
• The Appeal of Transnational History 
  By Lisa A. Lindsay
• Learning from Latin America 
  By Christine Mathias
• Promises and Perils of Transnational History 
  By Mae M. Ngai
• Historians in Wikipedia: Building an Open and Collaborative History 
  By Lori Byrd Phillips and Dominic McDevitt-Parks
• Wishful Thinking 
  By Joan Wallach Scott
• Beyond the Longue Durée: Human History in Deep Time 
  By Daniel Lord Smail
• Culture and Economic Development: Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow 
  By Francesca Trivellato
• Teaching History in the 21st-Century Community College 
  By Charles A. Zappia
• History: Past, Present, and Future 
  A Conversation between Lynn Hunt and Jacques Revel

Letters to the Editor

• Tragedy, Memory, History 
• Remembering Veterans

In Memoriam

• Stuart Hilwig 
• Richard W. Lyman
• Henry F. May
• Anna K. Nelson 
• Michael Wreszin

Endnotes

• Reflections of a Retiring Editor
  By Pillarisetti Sudhir