
Forum
- SLO Curve Ball: What I Really Want for My Students
Josh Ashenmiller | Jan 1, 2015
- Creating and Administering a Primary Source Analysis
John Buchkoski, Mikal B. Eckstrom, Holly Kizewski, and Courtney Pixler | Jan 1, 2015
- The Benefits of Self-Assessment: Measuring Historical Thinking Skills at UMass Boston
Jonathan Chu | Jan 1, 2015
- Confessions from the Field: Building Assessments with the History Discipline Core
Anne Hyde | Jan 1, 2015
On the Cover
In this issue of Perspectives on History, historians reflect on assessment—how they determine whether they and their students met their goals for a course or program. Al-Khidr, depicted on the cover, appears as a teacher in a Qur’anic parable. His student, Moses, fails all three of his teacher’s tests. Iconography portraying Al-Khidr often shows him traveling on the river of life on the back of a fish. See this month’s Endnote for more about Khidr iconography. The image is from the album Miniatures, portraits et modèles d’écriture des Indes, published in 1760 and held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Réserve OD-60 PET FOL, f. 19. {{PD-US}}
Features
- Teaching and Researching Roe v. Wade
Nicola Foote, Frances Davey, and Kristine De Welde | Jan 1, 2015
- The Medium Is the Message: Teaching about Globalization in a Global Classroom
Kris Manjapra | Jan 1, 2015
From the President
- A Quest for Balance
Vicki L. Ruiz | Jan 1, 2015
From the Executive Director
News
- On “Retirement as a Stage in the Academic Life Cycle”
Robert Rockaway | Jan 1, 2015
- Ex(-)Libris ex Oriente: New Database to Track the Transmission of Middle Eastern Books
Shatha Almutawa | Jan 1, 2015
- Jami’s Haft Awrang Undergoes Conservation at the Smithsonian
Shatha Almutawa | Jan 1, 2015
- The Face of the Nation: George Washington, Art, and America
Stephanie Kingsley | Jan 1, 2015
Advocacy
- Records Bills Move Forward as Congress Wraps Up for the Year
Lee White | Jan 1, 2015
AHA Activities
- Report of the 2014 AHA Nominating Committee
Dane Kennedy | Jan 1, 2015
- 2015 Nominating Committee Reiterates Call for Nominations
AHA Staff | Jan 1, 2015
Digital Dispatches
- Ghosts and Monsters: Human-Scale Digital History at #RRCHNM20
Seth Denbo | Jan 1, 2015
Career Paths
- A Historian in a Professional School of Politics
Matthew Dallek | Jan 1, 2015
In Memoriam
- Frank T. Reuter: 1926–2014
Kirk Bane | Jan 1, 2015
- Victor R. Greene: 1931–2014
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Michael Gordon | Jan 1, 2015
Endnote
- The Man Who Floats on a Fish
Shatha Almutawa | Jan 1, 2015