From the Editor

Townhouse Notes
By Allison Miller

From the President

An African Diaspora Curriculum
By Patrick Manning

From the Executive Director

Looking Abroad, Looking Ahead: Forging Global Ties among Historians
By James Grossman

News

Doing Right Online: Archivists Shape an Ethics for the Digital Age
By Kritika Agarwal

Office of the Historian Releases New FRUS Volumes: Historical Advisory Committee Cautiously Optimistic
By Rachel Van Bokkem

Contrary to Popular Belief: Recovering the Grassroots History of American Atheism
By Allison Miller

Updates on the AHA’s Advocacy Efforts

From the National Coalition for History

Fighting for History: Behind the Scenes at the NCH
By Lee White

AHA Annual Meeting

The Jefferson County Showdown over the Advanced Placement US History Test: A Second Chance for a Failed Dialogue
By Fritz Fischer

Abstract of the Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting: “Inequality: Historical and Disciplinary Approaches”
By Patrick Manning

The Committee on Women Historians Breakfast

The Modern European History Luncheon

AHA Activities

Boubakar Barry, Historian of Senegambia, Selected as 2016 Honorary Foreign Member
By Martin Klein

Career Paths

A Tale of Reinvention: The Historian, the Dancer, and the Arts Administrator
By Julia del Palacio

In Memoriam

William H. McNeill: 1917-2016
By John R. McNeill

On the Cover

As more historians take on digital projects, new issues surface regarding methodology, dissemination, even ethics. In this issue, Perspectives explores what it means to do history in the digital age. Illustration by Zoila Torres, after a Farm Security Administration photograph by Jack Delano/Library of Congress. In the image, a young person sells copies of the Chicago Defender, one of the nation’s leading African American newspapers, in 1942.