May 2014
Volume 52, Number 5
Contents of the online edition
Editor: Allen Mikaelian
Associate Editor: Shatha Almutawa
From the President
The AHA as Bully Pulpit
By Jan Goldstein
From the Executive Director
Career Diversity’s Time Has Come
By James Grossman and Julia Brookins
From the Professional Division
The Ethical Historian: Notes and Queries on Professional Conduct
By Catherine Epstein, Mary Louise Roberts, Andrew Jon Rotter, and Philippa Levine
News
Layers of Culture: Byzantine Artifacts in Heaven and Earth
By Shatha Almutawa
Orphan Work Conversation Continues: Digitization Efforts Running Up against Murky Copyright Issues
By Seth Denbo
Historical Advisory Committee Reports on Declassification Progress: State Department and National Archives Have Eliminated Backlogs
By Allen Mikaelian
Veterans, Civilians, and the "Dangerous Gap": NEH's Standing Together Initiative to Address the Experience of War
By Allen Mikaelian
Advocacy
Expanding Our Efforts: Campaigns for History and the Humanities, on and beyond the Hill
By Lee White
AHA on Document Collection Requirements: Wide Access Need Not Compete with Quality Production
By Seth Denbo
The 129th Annual Meeting
Why Not Spend New Year’s Eve in New York?
By Debbie Ann Doyle
National History Center
Making History Matter: The Past, Present, and Future of the NHC
By Dane Kennedy and Amanda Moniz
Letters to the Editor
On "Why Caribbean History Matters"
Where Does Peer Review Fit in a Digital Age?
On "Teaching Middle Eastern History"
On "The Social in the Machine"
Endnote
Wrong Again
By Allen Mikaelian
Teaching
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The Assassin's Perspective: Teaching History with Video Games
By Nicolas Trépanier
Looking at What's Wrong to See What's Right: Teaching Slavery in Africa through Film
By Paul Bjerk
Disrupting Discussion Rituals in the History Classroom
By Andrew M. Koke
The Digital Historian
Improving Wikipedia: Notes from an Informed Skeptic
By Stephen W. Campbell
Career Paths
What I Learned at AHA 2014: A Mentor's Perspective
By Lauren Apter Bairnfather
What I Do: Historians Talk about Their Work
On the Cover
The relief featured on the cover shows soldiers joyfully returning home in 1918 and is a stark contrast to the solemn or heroic atmosphere surrounding most war commemorations. The relief is from the Monument aux Combattants de la Haute-Garonne in Toulouse, France. The memorial to soldiers from Haute-Garonne who fought in World War I was built in 1920; the sculptures are by Camille Raynaud, André Abbal, and Henry Raphaël Moncassin. |