Summer 2013

Contents of the special online edition
Editor: Allen Mikaelian
Associate Editor: Jennifer Reut
What I Do: Historians Talk about Their Work
In this new web series, historians discuss the interests, challenges, and pleasures in their jobs.
- Lincoln Bramwell
Chief Historian, US Forest Service
AHA Roundtable on President Obama's College Affordability Plan
- Roudtable Introduction
- Quality of Education: High Schools, MOOCs, and Mentors
By Elaine Carey, Vice President, Teaching Division, of the AHA - Real Value in Higher Education
By Kriste Lindenmeyer, Rutgers University-Camden - What Obama Should Have Said: An Alternate Text
By Terrence J. McDonald, University of Michigan - From Crisis to Crisis: Costs Only Part of the Problem
By Rusty Monhollon, Missouri Department of Higher Education - Doing Something-But What?
By Kenneth Pomeranz, President of the AHA - Can We Cut Our Way to Quality?
By Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley - A Narrow Proposal at a Time of Crisis
By Charles Zappia, San Diego Mesa College
AHA Roundtable: Historians' Perspectives on Web Ethics
- Roundtable Introduction
By Vanessa Varin - Benjamin Alpers
University of Oklahoma Honors College - John Fea
Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department Messiah College - Ann M. Little
Colorado State University - Claire Potter
Professor of History, The New School for Public Engagement, New York
Viewpoints
- Graduation Advice Past and Present: A Commencement Address with Historical Perspective
By Brooke L. Blower, Boston University
AHA Roundtable: US v. Windsor: Historians Discuss the Defense of Marriage Act
- Roudtable Introduction
By Allen Mikaelian - History's Relevance: The DOMA Opinion and the Historians' Amicus Brief
By Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University - The Changing Meanings of Marriage:Windsor in Historic Context
By Laura F. Edwards, Duke University - What the Supreme Court Did Not Say in Its Windsor Decision
By Leon Friedman, Hofstra Law School
AHA Roundtable: "It's a Small World After All"
- Roundtable Introduction
By Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago and AHA President - Historical Thinking Needs Global Engagement
By Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley - Not "Them," but "Us"
By Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick - Widths Within and Without
By Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto - Supporting an Expanded View
By Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles - Peripheral Vision: The Authors' Response
By Luke Clossey, Simon Fraser University, and Nicholas Guyatt, University of York
AHA Roundtable: Historians' Perspectives on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
- Roundtable Introduction
- Diversity: Integration's Poor Step-Child
By Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University - Fisher v. UT Austin: Affirmative Action under a Microscope-and on Life Support
By Reginald Ellis, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - A Relic of the Past? The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action
By Andrew Gyory, Facts On File