February 2014

Volume 52, Number 2
Contents of the online edition
Editor: Allen Mikaelian
From the President
Hannah Arendt Turns Public Historian: On Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt
By Jan Goldstein
From the Executive Director
Making Something Out of Bupkis: The AHA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship
By James Grossman and Seth Denbo
News
NARA’s Records of Rights Exhibit: Offering a Historical Frame for Contemporary Struggles
By Vanessa Varin
Academic Freedom in the Digital Age: AAUP Report Addresses a Changing Landscape
By Seth Denbo
Advocacy
Advocacy Close to Home: The Humanities Working Groups for Community Impact
By Stephen Kidd
AHA Activities
What’s in the February AHR?
By Robert A. Schneider
The AHA Ad Hoc Committee on Contingent Faculty
Action Items by the AHA Council
National History Center
A New Mission Statement Reflects the Evolution of the National History Center
By Marian J. Barber
In Memoriam
Endnote
Perspectives Paying It Forward
By Allen Mikaelian
The 128th Annual Meeting
All Things Digital at the Annual Meeting and Beyond
By Seth Denbo
The Global Reach of #AHA2014
By Vanessa Varin
Committee Meetings and Events
By Debbie Ann Doyle
Historians and History Museums: A Report from the Annual Meeting Workshop
By Stephen Aron
Career Fair Adds New Dimension to Annual Meeting Job Center
By Liz Townsend
Making Connections at the Poster Session
By Jennifer Reut
Awards, Prizes, and Honors Conferred at the 128th Annual Meeting
Compiled by Dana Schaffer
Historians Respond to MOOCs
Introduction: Why MOOCs Matter
By Elaine Carey
A Worthwhile Experiment
By Philip Zelikow
History a la MOOC, Version 2.0
By Jeremy Adelman
Can Teaching Be Taken “to Scale”?
By Ann M. Little
The Taylorization of the Historian’s Workplace
By Jonathan Rees
Viewpoints
Transforming the Preparation of Historians: Much More to Do
By James M. Banner, Jr.