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The stunning, intricate design of the piano is normally hidden beneath the surface, yet these inner workings can produce magnificent and historic masterpieces. With coordination and expertise, individual—and even contrasting—notes are able to join together to create harmony.

The American Historical Association's Tuning Project: An Introduction
  by Daniel J. McInerney   (pp. 491-501)

History in Harmony: The AHA "Tuning" Project in the Community College and the Closing of the Transfer Gap
  by Sarah Shurts   (pp. 503-517)

Reimagining the Introductory U.S. History Course
  by Nancy Quam-Wickham   (pp. 519-548)

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Our Experiences with Assessment and the Tuning Project
  by Elaine Carey and Tracey-Anne Cooper   (pp. 549-560)

Sharper, Clearer Outcomes: Using Stakeholder Focus Groups for Tuning History
  by Andrew Stuart Bergerson and Nathan Lindsay,
  with Leah K. Gensheimer and Dan Stroud   (pp. 561-586)

From Data Beast to Beast of Burden: A Case Study of Learning Outcomes in Faculty-Led Assessment as a Tool for Undergraduate History Curriculum Design
  by Susan Eckelmann, Sara C. Jorgensen, and Kira Robison   (pp. 587-606)

Full Reviews Section   (pp. 607-628)

Armstrong, Catherine. Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian's Guide
  by Dominic DeBrincat

Bourke, Richard and Ian McBride, eds. The Princeton History of Modern Ireland
  by Abigail Bernhardt

Conrad, Sebastian. What is Global History?
  by Joseph M. Snyder

Cotkin, George. Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility
  by Andrew H. Carroll

Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
  by Thomas Weyant

Drinot, Paulo and Alan Knight, eds. The Great Depression in Latin America
  by Julia Sloan

Engel, Barbara Alpern and Janet Martin. Russia in World History
  by Sally West

Goldstein, Alyosha, ed. Formations of United States Colonialism
  by Angela Firkus

Hodes, Martha. Mourning Lincoln
  by Elle Harvell

Kersten, Andrew E. and Clarence Lang, eds. Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
  by Herbert G. Ruffin II

Kocka, Jürgen. Capitalism: A Short History
  by Rahima Schwenkbeck

Mort, Terry. Thieves' Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn
  by Daniele Bolelli

Rothschild, N. Harry. Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers
  by Kevin Smith

Schneer, Jonathan. Ministers: Winston Churchill and His War Cabin et
  by Matthew McMurray

Index to Volume 49   (pp. 629-636)

487   Contributors to The History Teacher
637   Questionnaire for Potential Reviewers
638   Membership/Subscription information
640   Submission Guidelines for The History Teacher

502   Society For History Education: The History Teacher, Volume 50
518   Association for Asian Studies: Teach About Asia, Learn About Asia
548   American Historical Association: Join the AHA

Andrew Stuart Bergerson (Ph.D., History, University of Chicago) is a Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has written and co-written three books in modern German history: Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times (2004), The Happy Burden of History (2011), and Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground (forthcoming 2017). He is also a lead investigator in an interdisciplinary, intermedial project in public history, Trug und Schein: Ein Briefwechsel (trugundschein.org).

Elaine Carey is a Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at St. John's University in Queens, New York, and she holds the Lloyd Sealy Research Fellow at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She was the Vice President for the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association from 2013-2016, and she is active in the AHA's Tuning Project. She is the author of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico (2005) and the award-winning Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime (2014).

Tracey-Anne Cooper is an Associate Professor of History at St. John's University, where she has taught medieval history for the last nine years. Her research interests are reflected in other classes she teaches at undergraduate and graduate levels, including world history, women's history, cultural and intellectual history, and food history. Cooper is also keenly interested in the development of student writing and communication at all levels and in the pedagogy of student-centered online learning. Her innovative teaching strategies have included researching and writing a historical novel with her students, which they then self-published.

Susan Eckelmann is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and specializes in the history of children and youth, American race relations, modern U.S., and transnational history. In 2014, she completed her Ph.D. in History and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her manuscript in progress, "Freedom's Little Lights: Children and Teenagers in the U.S. and Abroad during the Civil Rights Era," examines the nexus of teenage youth, civil rights, and Cold War politics during the 1950s and 1960s.

Leah K. Gensheimer holds a Ph.D. in Ecological/Community Psychology from Michigan State University. She is an Associate Professor and Director of Assessment for Psychology at Avila University, where she teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels and serves as an undergraduate academic advisor. Her current interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, academic assessment, children and youth development, and academic service learning.

Sara C. Jorgensen received her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her teaching and research interests include southern African history, world history, and pedagogy of historical research and writing.

Nathan Lindsay is the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Montana, where he also serves as an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership. Before that, he was the Assistant Vice Provost for Assessment at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Director of Student Life Assessment at UNCW. His research interests include the improvement of learning and teaching, efforts to enhance the holistic development of students, and technology integration into higher education contexts.

Daniel J. McInerney (Ph.D., History-American Studies, Purdue University, 1984) is a Professor of History and Associate Head of the History Department at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. His research focuses on nineteenth-century U.S. history and social reform. McInerney has worked with the Lumina Foundation on the Tuning initiative since 2009, serving with the American Historical Association, as a member of the Tuning USA Advisory Board, and with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.

Nancy Quam-Wickham received her doctorate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. A former editor of this journal and department chair, she is now a Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. She has shared her work in assessing student learning and curricular designs at a variety of conferences and organizations, including the AHA, MHEC, WASC, SSRC, and AAC&U. She is a NILOA Degree Qualifications Profile Coach.

Kira Robison has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her fields of teaching and research are medieval history, with a focus on medicine, law, and religion.

Sarah Shurts received her Ph.D. in Modern French History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an Associate Professor of History at Bergen Community College in New Jersey. Recent publications appeared in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, European History Quarterly, and French Politics, Culture & Society. She is co-editor of the The Journal of the Western Society for French History, served on AHA's James Harvey Robinson Prize Committee and the Tuning Committee, and is creating a resource collection for the Oxford University Press textbook, The West in Question.

Dan Stroud (M.A., Political Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City) serves as the Assessment Specialist at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. In addition to his work in the assessment field, he serves as Associate Editor for Poverty and Public Policy, an e-journal of the Policy Studies Organization.