Features
- The Assassin’s Perspective: Teaching History with Video Games
Nicolas Trépanier | May 1, 2014
- Looking at What’s Wrong to See What’s Right: Teaching Slavery in Africa through Film
Paul Bjerk | May 1, 2014
- Disrupting Discussion Rituals in the History Classroom
Andrew M. Koke | May 1, 2014
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.
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently launched the latest of several veteran-focused initiatives. Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War will use literature, scholarship, arts, and digital history to build bridges over the significant gulf between those who have experienced war and those who have not. More on this initiative can be found in this issue, on page 14, and at www.neh.gov/veterans/standing-together. The photograph was taken by Brenda Remedios, (CC-BY-NC-SA).
From the President
- The AHA as Bully Pulpit
Jan Goldstein | May 1, 2014
From the Executive Director
- Career Diversity’s Time Has Come: Mellon Foundation Awards AHA $1.6 Million to Expand Historians’ Options
Julia Brookins and James Grossman | May 1, 2014
From the Professional Division
- The Ethical Historian: Notes and Queries on Professional Conduct
AHA Professional Division | May 1, 2014
News
- Layers of Culture: Byzantine Artifacts in Heaven and Earth
Shatha Almutawa | May 1, 2014
- Orphan Work Conversation Continues: Digitization Efforts Running Up against Murky Copyright Issues
Seth Denbo | May 1, 2014
- Historical Advisory Committee Reports on Declassification Progress: State Department and National Archives Have Eliminated Backlogs
Allen Mikaelian | May 1, 2014
- Veterans, Civilians, and the “Dangerous Gap”: NEH’s Standing Together Initiative to Address the Experience of War
Allen Mikaelian | May 1, 2014
Advocacy
- Expanding Our Efforts: Campaigns for History and the Humanities, on and beyond the Hill
Lee White | May 1, 2014
- AHA on Document Collection Requirements: Wide Access Need Not Compete with Quality Production
Seth Denbo | May 1, 2014
The 129th Annual Meeting
- Why Not Spend New Year’s Eve in New York?
Debbie Ann Doyle | May 1, 2014
The National History Center
- Making History Matter: The Past, Present, and Future of the NHC
Dane Kennedy and Amanda Moniz | May 1, 2014
The Digital Historian
- Improving Wikipedia: Notes from an Informed Skeptic
Stephen W. Campbell | May 1, 2014
Career Paths
- What I Learned at AHA 2014: A Mentor’s Perspective
Lauren Apter Bairnsfather | May 1, 2014
- What I Do: Historians Talk about Their Work
Staff | May 1, 2014
Letters to the Editor
- On “The Social in the Machine”
Kenneth R. Zimmerman | May 1, 2014
- On “Teaching Middle Eastern History”
Alice Whealey | May 1, 2014
- Where Does Peer Review Fit in a Digital Age?
Caitlin Luetger | May 1, 2014
- On “Why Caribbean History Matters”
Thomas August | May 1, 2014
Endnote
- Wrong Again
Allen Mikaelian | May 1, 2014