50:8 / November 2012

In This Issue . . .

From the President

• Recollecting My Library . . .
  and My Self
  By William Cronon
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Lincoln, Hollywood, and an Opportunity for Historians
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

News

• Fundraising Begins for the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History
  
  
• Perspectives on the Presidential Debates
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
• The Emancipation Proclamation
  and America
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

The 127th Annual Meeting

• Some Highlights
  of the 127th Annual Meeting
  By Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Preparing for the 2013 Annual Meeting: Some Reminders
  
  
• Atina Grossman to Speak at the CWH Breakfast in New Orleans
  
  
• The Presidential Sessions
  By William Cronon
  
  
• Visiting New Orleans with Children
  By Andrew Goss
  
  
• Film Festival:
  Celebrating the Work of John Sayles
  By Chris Hale
  
  
• Prizes, Awards, and Honors to Be
  Conferred at the 127th Annual Meeting
  
  
• Join Your Fellow Historians at the 106th Annual Jackson Day Race
  
  
• Registration | Hotel Rates and Map
  
  
  

Teaching

• Training Doctoral Students
  with the AHA's Archives Wiki
  By Keith A. Erekson
  
  
• Student-Created Websites
  as Useful Forums for Reporting
  on Historical Research
  By Gleb Tsipursky
  
  
• Using Skype to Teach History Transnationally: An Experiment
  By Eman M. Vovsi
  
  
• Researching and Writing
  a Historical Biography
  for the Elementary Classroom
  By E. Thomas Ewing,
  Katharine A. Goins,
  Mallary J. Orrison,
  and Erin M. Lord
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Advocacy beyond Capitol Hill
  By Lee White
  
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• SHAFR Seeks Proposals for Editor
  of Diplomatic History

Forum / Teaching Women's History

• Teaching Women's History: Accuracy, Objectivity, and Critical Thinking
  By Katherine Hijar
  
  
• Looking Back at the Longue Durée
  of Women's History
  By Mary Kelley
  
  
• Teaching Chicana History
  By Ana Elizabeth Rosas
  
  
• Teaching the History of Women
  in the Middle East and North Africa
  By Sara Scalenghe
  
  
  

AHA Online

• Trending on AHA's Social Media
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

National History Center

• Forming a Field from Fragments
  of Empires
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

The 128th Annual Meeting

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

Letters to the Editor

• On Letters to the Editor
• Social Studies and the FAIR Act
• On the Tuning Project
• On Political Facts
  and Historical Thinking
• On Subversives:
  An Author's Perspective
• On Funding for Conference Travel
• On the September Issue
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• J.M.W. Bean
  
  
• Eric Hobsbawm
  
  
• James J. Lorence
  
  
• Robert K. Webb
  
  
  

Cover shows detail from The Bookworm, circa 1850, by Carl Spitzweg (1808–85). The digital image is part of a collection of images compiled by The Yorck Project and distributed by Directmedia Publishing GmbH, and is reproduced here courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. See William Cronon's essay for more details.

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