44:7/ October 2006

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• We Are All Historians of Human Rights
  by Linda K. Kerber
  

From the Executive Director

• The Higher Education Commission Report: Should History Departments Be Concerned?
  by Arnita A. Jones
  
  

AHA Activities

• Thinking about the Future,
  the AHA, and You
  by William H. Chafe
  
  
• Nominations Invited for AHA Offices: Terms Beginning January 2008
  
  
• Statement on Diversity in AHA Nominations and Appointments
  
  

News

• History Gains Ground in Majors and Undergraduate Degrees, Graduate Studies Continue to Decline
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• SSRC Announces New Program
  
  
• Do Poorer Schools Mean Poorer
  History Teaching?
  
  

Professional Issues

• Best Practices for Interviewers
  by Mary Lindemann
  
  

Issues in Graduate Education

• Promoting Progress: The AHA Workshop for Directors of Graduate Studies
  by David M. Darlington
  
  

The Coalition Column

• NARA's Budget Blues: Can Anything Be Done to Help the Agency?
  by Bruce Craig
  
  
• News Briefs
  
  

Teaching

• A Template for Writing a Course Portfolio for Document Teaching
  by Amy Nelson Burnett
  
  

Annual Meeting 2007

• Make Arrangements to Attend the 121st Annual Meeting in Atlanta
  
  
• Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities
  
  
• Presidential Sessions
  
  
• NARA in Atlanta
  by Jay Hakes and James McSweeney
  
  
• 2007 Annual Meeting
  Registration Form
  
  
• 2007 Hotel Reservation Forms
  
  
• Civil War Resources in the Atlanta Area: An Overview
  by Gordon Jones
  
  
• Research in Atlanta: A Treasure Trove of Historic Documents
  by Sheila McAlister
  
  
• An Essential Atlanta Bookshelf
  by Jamil Zainaldin
  
  
• Atlanta Area Museums and Attraction
  by Ren Davis
  
  
• Tours Organized by the Local Arrangements Committee
  
  
• The Job Register: Information for Interviewers
  
  

Annual Meeting 2008

• Call for Proposals: The 2008 Meeting
  of the AHA
  by Nancy Tomes and Pete Sigal
  
  

Members

• October, 2006
  
  

In Memoriam

• Robert Carlisle
  
  
• Fritz Ringer
  
  

On the cover: Interview with the Viceroy of Egypt at his palace in Alexandria. Painting by David Roberts, lithographed by Louis Haghe, c. 1846. Digital image from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.