51:3 / March 2013

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Narrowing Distances (Provisionally)
  By Kenneth Pomeranz
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• New Year's Eve at the Archives
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• MOOCs and Historical Research
  By John McNeill
  
  
  

Research

• What's in a Title?
  A Closer Look at History Dissertations
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Campus Complaints of the Early 20th Century
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

News

• The Benefits of a Good Story
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
• The Chronicle Launches
  the Adjunct Project
  By Jennifer Reut
  
  
• Fracture and Reflection: Emancipation Proclamation Events Offer a Window into Current Debate
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
• Women's History and the National Park Service
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• Pacific Worlds
  and the U.S. History Survey
  By Nike Nivar and Robert Townsend
  
  
• AHA Job Ads and AAUP Censure
  From the Professional Division
  
  
• Broadening the Horizon
  for Humanities PhDs
  By Julia Brookins
  
  
• AHA Council, Divisions,
  and Committees for 2013
  Compiled by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• Member News
  
  
  

AHA Online

• Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating the Discipline? Historians Respond to "Recasting History"
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

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

The Art of History

• The Frailty of Historical Truth
  By David Lowenthal
  
  
  

Thinking Historically

• Falling Out of Love with Living
  in the Past
  By Susan Ferber
  
  
  

Masters at the Movies

• Masters at the Movies, Take 21
  By Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• In Praise of Frank Capra, Fabulist
  By Michael Kazin
  
  
  

Teaching

• History à la MOOC
  By Jeremy Adelman
  
  
• Teaching Transnational American History in a Study Abroad Program: America and Vietnam
  By Mart A. Stewart
  
  
  

National History Center

• Emancipation, the Cold War,
  and Hidden Themes of History
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

Affiliated Societies

• Book Review Editor Needed
  for Enterprise & Society
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• John C. Rule
  
  
• Henry R. Winkler
  
  
• Alfred F. Young
  
  
  

Endnote

• Uncertainty, Humility,
  and Visions of the Future
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
  

The image on the cover of the print edition is from Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), starring James Stewart as Jefferson Smith. Photo © Columbia Pictures, courtesy Photofest.

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