Thinking Historically about STEM

The Alchemist’s Experiment Takes Fire (1687). Hendrick Heerschop, Dutch. Oil on canvas laid down on board. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics rarely move in a simple line from one success to another. Thinking historically about STEM can help illuminate the course these disciplines take, including experiments gone awry. In this issue, we offer two historians’ views on what history can bring to the STEM disciplines, and vice versa. Image courtesy of the Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections. Gift of Fisher Scientific International. Photograph by Gregory Tobias.

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Allen Mikaelian, editor
Shatha Almutawa, associate editor
Stephanie Kingsley, associate editor, web content and social media
Jacob Ingram, editorial assistant
Liz Townsend, coordinator, professional data and job center

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Rethinking Graduate Education in History: A Five-Year Assessment
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From the President

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From the Research Division

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Letters to the Editor

On “Retirement as a Stage in the Academic Life Cycle”
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In Memoriam

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From the Editor

Perspectives as a Public Forum
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December 30, 2014

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December 26, 2014

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December 24, 2014

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December 22, 2014

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December 19, 2014

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December 17, 2014

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Member Spotlight: Andrea L. Turpin
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December 16, 2014

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Session of the Week: Common Core
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Session of the Week: Blogging and Scholarship
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