"Within these walls": reding and writing institutional histories -- Oral history as scholarship -- Autobiograpy and biographical research in higher education -- "No food, no drinks, pencil only": checklists for conducting and interpreting archival research -- The literature review as scholarship: using critical reviews and historiography -- Horizontal history and higher education -- Photographs as primary sources -- Quantification and cognitive history: applying social science theory and method to historical data -- Life history and voice: on standpoints and reflexivity -- "Poor" research: historiographical challenges when sociop-economic status is the unit of analysis -- Where is your "home"? Writing the history of Asian Americans in higher education -- Beyond Black and White: researching the history of Latinos in American higher education -- Writing through the past: federal higher education policy -- The challenge of writing the South.
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