December 2012

Volume 50, Number 9
Contents of the online edition
Editor: Pillarisetti Sudhir
Associate Editor: Allen Mikaelian
From the President
- And Gladly Teach
By William Cronon
From the Executive Director
- The Tasks before Us
By James Grossman
AHA Activities
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 - 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 - Time to Retire?
By Caroline Walker Bynum - Human Agency in the Anthropocene
By Dipesh Chakrabarty - African History / Global History
By - 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
In Memoriam
Endnotes
- Reflections of a Retiring Editor
By Pillarisetti Sudhir