AHA Activities

• Nominations Invited for AHA Offices, Terms Beginning January 2006
• Statement on Diversity in AHA Nominations and Appointments

News

• AHA Opens Pilot Web Pages on History Doctoral Programs
  by Patrick Manning
  
• Publishing in 2003: One for the History Books?
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
• Symposium at Library of Congress Focuses on History Textbooks

The Coalition Column

• Combating Government Secrecy: An Update
  by Bruce Craig
  
• News Briefs

Teaching

• Research on Students’ Historical Thinking and Learning
  by Keith C. Barton

Graduate Students’ Forum

Into the Classroom! Tips and Tricks to Succeed as a Teacher

• Getting Started 
  by Terry Seip
  
• A Recipe for a Successful Lecture
  by Peter Filene
  
• Teaching in High-Intensity Mode
  by Rudolph M. Bell

Archives and Research

• The Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  by Paul M. Gherman

Annual Meeting 2005

• (Some) Things to Do in Seattle When You Are Here: A First Look
  by Maureen Murphy Nutting
  
• Seeing Past the Totem Poles: Seattle’s Native Histories 
  by Coll Thrush
  
• Arrangements for Persons Requiring Special Accessibility 
• Pre-Meeting Workshops at the Annual Meeting
• Making Plans for the 119th Annual Meeting? Some Useful Reminders
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
• Annual Meeting Job Register

Annual Meeting 2006

• Call for Proposals: The 2006 Annual Meeting of the AHA
  by Celia Applegate and Kären Wigen

In Memoriam

• David Chesebrough
• Peter J. Coleman
• Russell F. Weigley
• Joseph L. Arnold

The cover of the printed version shows an image of an early 20th-century postcard view of a Tlingit totem pole in Seattle’s Pioneer Square (see essay by Coll Thrush). Image courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, SEA 1900.
Cover design by Pillarisetti Sudhir