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The article invites applicants to teaching positions in the field of history in the Middle Atlantic States. Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. is looking for an assistant professor of history on South Asia and the Indian Ocean world. Applications for an assistant professorship of history specializing in pre-1500 Africa, Asia or the Americas are accepted at Salisbury University in Maryland. A non-Western historian is invited to work at Wells College in New York.

Information about the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting held in New York City on January 2-5, 2009 is presented. Topics include the danger of studying and teaching history in different parts of the world and the plight of historians in Russia. The meeting featured several notable people including AHA President Gabrielle Speigel, author Adam Hochschild and historian Linda Colley.

The article reports that the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University has opened a master's program in Archives and Public History. According to the director of the program, Peter J. Wosh, the need to provide professionals and scholars with necessary intellectual engagement, conceptual tools and practical skills in the field has prompted the university to open such a course. The program will expose students to modern trends in studying history.

The article invites proposals for the 123rd annual meeting of the American Historical Association which will be held on January 2-5, 2009 in New York City. It is stated that the proposals are welcome in all aspects of the construction and representation in consideration of advance historical research, teaching and public historical practice. The proposals for sessions are categorized in five different formats including formal sessions, sessions with precirculated papers and thematic workshops.