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Presents a narrative of the author's experience of giving a series of lectures on American history and the global impact of American culture to students and faculty members at several universities in central Java, Indonesia. Information that Indonesia is a country with the largest Muslim population in the world; Expectation of the author that he would meet a number of people in Indonesia who had some familiarity with the U.S.; Information that the author had a difficult time communicating with audiences in Indonesia.

In this article the authors discuss the difficulties each of them have experienced in developing their careers as historians, one as a professor at the University of Michigan and one as a public historian, and examine the benefits that public history projects and the discipline in general serve in the U.S. They comment on their collaborative effort to develop a graduate public history course at Michigan that will require students to complete historical research and participate in historic preservation and overview how the course will benefit the goals of the U.S. National Park Service. Additionally, the authors present their views on the relationship between academic and public history.

The article discusses the experience of the author of teaching Middle Eastern history at a large research university in the South. Like any new faculty member, the author's anxieties revolved primarily around not breaking the PowerPoint projector, not being mistaken yet again for a graduate student instead of a professor, and not spilling spinach dip on the dean at one of the innumerable faculty mixers held at the beginning of the academic year. Since neither of the letters specified exactly what the author had done to place the author in the ranks of someone who, as one of the letters put it, shoveled Jews into the ovens at Dachau, it took me a couple of days of inquiries and some Google searching to figure out what was going on.

Focuses on academic approaches to history as a field of study and teaching. Presence of much debate and contradiction in historical writing; Role of historiography in the practice of writing about history; Collective memory as a historical resource, and the factor of sentimentality; Relativistic approach that memory takes in historical interpretation, and the multiplicity that results in historical documentation; Comments on the text `The Devastation of the Indies,' by Bartolome De las Casas.

This article reports on "The History Boys," Allen Bennett's hit Broadway play which won six Tony Awards. A film version is scheduled to be released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The "boys" of The History Boys are a group of British sixth-formers headed for university, and their ambitious headmaster dreams of bringing his school up a notch by sending them to Oxford or Cambridge. The author took issue with the play for its portrayal of history, history education, and historical practice which he feels is inaccurate.