Teaching

Contributing Editor: David Trask

• Preparing Future Faculty: Teaching the Academic Life
  by David Rayson, Edward L. Farmer, and Robert Frame

Professional Issues

Contributing Editor: Gail Savage

• 1998 Job Market Report: Retirements Create More Opportunities but Job Gap Remains
  by Robert B. Townsend

Noteworthy

• Report of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation
  by Warren F. Kimball

News

• History Course Stirs Up Controversy
• New Executive Director at History of Science Society

Public History

Contributing Editors: John David Smith and William F. Willingham

• A Historian's Experience in the National Park Service
  by Ann Deines

AHA Activities

• AHA Elections: Report of the 1998 Nominating Committee
• Letter from the 1999 Nominating Committee
  by Leo Spitzer

Letters to the Editor

• Douglas Steeples, Faye Getz, and James G. Ryan on spousal/partner hiring
• Melody Moss on counting the invisible adjunct

NCC Advocacy Update

• January 1999
  by Page Putnam Miller