According to an article published in the January 27, 2006 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, over the past several years the number of history Ph.D. graduates has decreased even as the number of positions on offer at colleges and universities around the United States has steadily increased. While job markets are cyclical, the statistics can only be good news for history graduate students. The addition of more than a dozen new, highly regarded history faculty at Temple over the past several years certainly bears out this trend. –David C. Murray