50:7 / October 2012

In This Issue . . .

From the President

• How Long Will People
  Read History Books?
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Tragedy, Memory, History
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• Veterans and Remembrance:
  Before It's Too Late
  By J. R. McNeill
  
  
  

News

• Clio's Charm Holding Fast? History Major Numbers Continue to Rise at Most Institutions
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• The Network of Concerned Historians Reports on History and Human Rights
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
• What's in the October 2012 AHR?
  By Robert A. Schneider
  
  
• Georgia Limits Access to Archives,
  The AHA Responds
  
  
• Participants Selected for the "American History,
  Atlantic and Pacific" Project
  
  
  

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Attending the 127th Annual Meeting in New Orleans: Some Useful Reminders
  By Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Information for Persons
  with Disabilities
  
  
• Welcome to New Orleans
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• Resilience and the City: Katrina
  and Consequences in New Orleans
  By Craig E. Colten
  
  
• A City Built on Baubles: A Brief History of Tourism in New Orleans
  By J. Mark Souther
  
  
• Tours Organized By the Local Arrangements Committee
  
  
• Registration | Hotel Rates and Map
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Nominations Invited For AHA Offices
  By Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Statement on Diversity in AHA Nominations and Appointments
  
  
• History Discipline Core: A Statement from the AHA's Tuning Project
  
  
• Best Practices on Transparency
  in Placement Records
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• NCH Asks Federal Court to Review Detrimental FOIA Decision
  By Lee White

History and the
Digital Image Forum

• Introduction
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
• How Scanners Democratize History
  By Carl Abbott
  
  
• Scanning Historical Images:
  Some Practical Advice
  By Tanya March
  
  
• Viewshare: Digital Interfaces
  as Scholarly Activity
  By Trevor Owens and Jefferson Bailey
  
  
• On an Infrastructure for Historical Spatial Analysis
  By Peter K. Bol
  
  
• DIY Image Management with Zotero
  By Elena Razlogova
  
  
• Lightroom as a Research Tool:
  From Organization to Interpretation
  By Nancy Brown
  
  
• DevonThink, Digital Research
  and the Paperless Dream
  By Rachel Leow
  
  
  

State of the Field

• Historians and Climate Change
  By Sam White
  
  
  

Teaching

• The 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: A Teachable Moment
  By Linda K. Kerber
  
  
• Making History at a History Conference
  By Benjamin Justice
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Toward a Global History of Britain
  By Gregory A. Barton
  
  
  

Perspectives On Books

• Countering Subversion:
  Black Panther Scholarship,
  Popular History, and the Richard Aoki Controversy
  By Donna Jean Murch
  
  
  

National History Center

• From Decolonization to Getting It Right: The Center's Sessions in New Orleans
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
• Applications Invited for the Eighth International Seminar on Decolonization
  
  
  

The 128th Annual Meeting

• Call for Proposals
  for the 128th Annual Meeting
  By Anne McCants and Peter Perdue
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Thomas J. Pressly
  
  
  

Cover photography and design by Chris Hale. The archival photo of the U.S. Capitol is courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Published by the American Historical Association,
Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version
of Perspectives on History (ISSN: 0743-7021).