January 1999

Volume 37, Number 1
Contents of the online edition
Editor: Robert B. Townsend
Managing Editor: Pillarisetti Sudhir
Assistant Editor: Susan W. Gillespie
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