43:6/ September 2005

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the President

• Contested Histories
  by James J. Sheehan
  
  

From the Vice Presidents

• History Doctoral Programs Web Site Updated to Provide Improved Information for Applicants
  by Patrick Manning
  
  

News

• Privileging History: Trends in the Undergraduate Origins of History PhDs
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Teaching the Introductory Survey: Insights from the College Board's AP® Survey
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Rethinking America in Global Perspective: A Report on the Institute
  by Debbie Ann Doyle
  
  
• National History Center Receives Quarter-Million Dollar Mellon Foundation Grant to Conduct Seminars on Decolonization
  
  
• International Congress Brings Historians from around the World to Sydney
  by Dane Kennedy
  
  
• NASA and Jameson Fellowships Awarded
  
  

AHA Activities

• Online Balloting: A Step Forward for the AHA
  
  
• Council Decisions, June 2005
  
  
• Statement on Peer Review
  
  
• Gender Equity in the Academic History Workplace: A Guide to Best Practices
  by the AHA Committee on Women Historians
  
  

National History Center

• National History Center's Seminar Spotlights Social Security
  
  

The Coalition Column

• A Continuing Congressional Concern: "U.S. History—Our Worst Subject,"
  by Bruce Craig



• News Briefs

From the Executive Director

• The Annual Meeting: The Policy Issues
  by Arnita A. Jones and Sharon K. Tune
  

Annual Meeting 2006

• Make Your Plans for the Annual Meeting,
  by Sharon K. Tune
  
  
• New Modes for the Next Meeting: RD Calls for Comments
  by Mériam Belli
  
  
• Annual Meeting: Guidelines for Implementation
  
  

Annual Meeting 2007

• Call for Proposals: The 2007 Annual Meeting of the AHA
  by Carolyn Brown and Barbara Welke
  
  
• Meeting Theme—"Unstable Subjects: Practicing History in Unsettled Times"
  
  
• AHA Annual Meeting Guidelines
  
  
• Electronic Proposal Submission for the 2007 Meeting
  
  
• New Modes of Presentation: A Glossary
  
  

Viewpoints

• The Annual Meeting: Reflections of a First Timer
  by Jacob M. Blosser