46:5/May 2008

Contents of the online version of the print edition

From the Vice Presidents

• Supporting Scholars Early
  in Their Careers
  by Teofilo F. Ruiz
  
  
  

From the Executive Director

• The Life Cycle of the
  AHA Member
  by Arnita A. Jones
  
  
  

News

• Challenges for History Doctoral Programs and Students:
  Rising Admissions and High Attrition
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
• Barely Keeping Up:
  The 2007 Salary Report Suggests History Salaries Are Closing the Gap
  by Robert B. Townsend
  
  
  

The Coalition Column

• Opening Up Federal Records:
  The Public Interest Declassification Board Issues Its First Report
  by Lee White
  
  
• House Appropriations Panel Considers NARA's Fiscal 2009 Budget
  
  
  

The Profession

• Conference Rules
  Everything You Need to Know
  about Presenting a Scholarly
  Paper in Public
  by Linda K. Kerber
  
  
  

Public History

• On the Plain of Sand Creek,
  in the Valley of Washita
  by Robert L. Spude
  
  
  

Viewpoints

• Rediscovering the Book Review
  by Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
  
  
  

Members

• May, 2008

Film and History

• Masters at the Movies—Take 4
  by Robert Brent Toplin
  
  
• Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten:
  Hollywood and the Civil War since Glory
  by Gary W. Gallagher
  
  
  

Technology

• Podcasting and Profession
  by Krista Sigler
  
  
• Teaching History with YouTube
  by Jonathan Rees
  
  
  

Teaching

• K–12 Teaching: Why Should We Care?
  by Brad Austin
  
  
  

In Memoriam

• Charles Budd Forcey
  
  
• George M. Fredrickson
  
  
• John A. Garraty
  
  
• Ronald S. Love
  
  
• Thomas D. Marzik
  
  
• Robert F. Southard
  
  
• John Jay TePaske
  
  
  
  

 
The cover image is a view of the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site in Oklahoma. Digital image courtesy the National Park Service.

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