51:5 / May 2013

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Three Old Boxes:
  Lessons from Research
  Gone (Partly) Awry
  By Kenneth Pomeranz
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• Mysteries of AHA Prizes Revealed (Somewhat)
  By James Grossman
  
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• What the Professional Division
  Can and Cannot Do
  By Jacqueline Jones
  
  
  

News

• The National Parks and the Value of History
  By Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• NARA's Preservation EXPOsed!
  Deserves More Exposure
  By Jennifer Reut
  
  
  

AHA Activities

• History Learning and Teaching
  in the Graduate Curriculum
  By Julia Brookins
  
  
• AHA Releases Report on Two-Year College Faculty
  ByDebbie Ann Doyle
  and Cheryll Ann Cody
  
  
• Staff Changes at the AHA
  
  
• AHA Protests Senate Initiative to Restrict Funding of Political Science Research
  
  
• Outstanding AHA Committee Appointments Finalized for 2013 Service
  
  
  

AHA Online

• Being a Good Web Citizen
  By Vanessa Varin
  
  
  

Timelines

• From Publishing to Communication:
  The AHA's Online Journey
  By Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

Research

• It's a Small World After All:
  The Wider World in Historians' Peripheral Vision
  By Luke Clossey and Nicholas Guyatt
  
  
  

Member News

• May 2013
  
  
  

Letters to the Editor

• On "Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating the Discipline?"
• On "Decolonization in the Classroom"
• On "AHA Job Ads and AAUP Censure"
• On "The Frailty of Historical Truth"

Thinking Historically

• What's It Like to Leave Scholarship
  for Painting?
  By Nell Painter
  
  
  

Publishing

• Opening the Journal:
  How an Open-Access E-journal Can Serve Scholarship, the Liberal Arts,
  and the Community
  By Hong-Ming Liang
  
  
  

Perspectives on Books

• Professions and Publics:
  Three Views of Doing History
  By James Herbert
  
  
  

Teaching

• The Particular and the Universal:
  Integrating Jewish Experiences into
  Early America/US Survey Courses
  By David E. Narrett
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Defunding the Social Sciences
  By Lee White
  
  
  

National History Center

• Spring Congressional Briefing
  on the History of Immigration Policy
  By Marian J. Barber
  
  
  

2014 Annual Meeting

• Disagreement, Debate, Discussion:
  The 128th Annual Meeting
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Charles H. Glatfelter
  
  
• Gale Stokes
  
  
• Robert H. Zieger
  
  
  

Endnote

• The Humanities and the World
  By Allen Mikaelian
  
  
  
  
  

On the cover of the print edition: Black Sea Composite 4 by Nell Painter, 2012, acrylic on Yupo, 26" x 40".

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