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