
Features
- Wall Remains, Holocaust Memorials, and Prussian Heritage: Reflections on Cold War Commemoration in Germany
Keith R. Allen | Nov 1, 2014
- The Cold War as Operational Experience: The View from NORAD
Lance Blyth | Nov 1, 2014
- More than McCarthy: Teaching the Cold War, K–12 and Beyond
Beth Slutsky and Nancy McTygue | Nov 1, 2014
- In from the Cold: Espionage Fiction as an Educational Tool
Anton Fedyashin | Nov 1, 2014
On the Cover
The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is being commemorated and celebrated this month, and in this issue we feature several historians’ perspectives on the Cold War. The cover photo shows the decaying state of the auditorium of the Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria. Constructed in the 1970s as a monument to the founding of the socialist movement in Bulgaria, the Buzludzha Monument is perched on a distant mountaintop in the Central Balkan Mountains. Like many Soviet-era monuments, it is now the subject of an ongoing debate about whether it should be preserved or torn down, and who should pay. Meanwhile, tourists and vandals flock to the site, and images of the flying-saucer-shaped concrete exterior and the decaying interior appear frequently on blogs and on the web pages of online communities devoted to ruins photography. The photograph is by Michael Kötter (www.flickr.com/photos/cmdrcord) and is licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
From the President
- Discovering Global History through Historical Fiction: The Many Layers of Amitav Ghosh’s Trilogy of Novels
Jan Goldstein | Nov 1, 2014
From the Executive Director
- Historians and Public Culture: Widening the Circle of Advocacy
James Grossman and Jason Steinhauer | Nov 1, 2014
From the Professional Division
- The Ethical Historian: Notes and Queries on Professional Conduct
Catherine Epstein, Mary Louise Roberts, Andrew Jon Rotter, and Philippa Levine | Nov 1, 2014
News
- Walls That Speak History: Preserving Tom Lea’s WPA-Era Murals
Shatha Almutawa | Nov 1, 2014
- Drilling Down into the Latest Undergraduate Data: History Bachelors Decline, but Several Upward Trends Persist
Allen Mikaelian | Nov 1, 2014
- Grossman, Schaffer, and Brookins Serving National Organizations
AHA | Nov 1, 2014
Advocacy
- Transparency Initiatives Moving Forward: A New Committee Tackles FOIA Reform While Congress Takes on Presidential Records
Lee White | Nov 1, 2014
- AHA Issues Statement on Graduate School Offers of Financial Support
Philippa Levine | Nov 1, 2014
- Letter to the Jefferson County, Colorado, Board of Education
James Grossman | Nov 1, 2014
AHA Activities
- Career Diversity for Historians: Phase II Kickoff in DC
Emily Swafford | Nov 1, 2014
Digital Dispatches
- The Paperless Archive
Seth Denbo | Nov 1, 2014
From the National History Center
- The NHC Receives Mellon Grant in Support of Congressional Briefings
Amanda Moniz | Nov 1, 2014
Career Paths
- History as Preparation for a Career in Business
Jack Cumming | Nov 1, 2014
Teaching
- Put Your Feet on the Ground of History
Julie Mujic | Nov 1, 2014
AHA Annual Meeting
- Walking the City of Serendipity
David S. Dunbar | Nov 1, 2014
- The Presidential Sessions
Jan Goldstein | Nov 1, 2014
- A Web of History: Digital History at the Annual Meeting
Seth Denbo | Nov 1, 2014
- Annual Meeting Highlights: January 2-5, 2015, New York City
Sharon K. Tune | Nov 1, 2014
- Annual Meeting Film Festival
Debbie Ann Doyle | Nov 1, 2014
- Tours Organized by the Local Arrangements Committee
AHA | Nov 1, 2014
- Prizes, Awards, and Honors to Be Conferred
AHA | Nov 1, 2014
- Preregistration and Accommodations
Sharon K. Tune | Nov 1, 2014
In Memoriam
- Gary Gene Land: 1944-2014
Ronald L. Numbers and Brian E. Strayer | Nov 1, 2014
- Richard William Lenk: 1936-2014
Sarah Shurts | Nov 1, 2014
- Gilad Margalit: 1959-2014
Carole Fink | Nov 1, 2014
- Roland Anthony Oliver: 1923-2014
Martin Klein | Nov 1, 2014
Endnote
- Arab New York
Shatha Almutawa | Nov 1, 2014
Member News
- Member News, November 2014
Compiled by AHA Staff | Nov 1, 2014