Includes bibliographical references

Service-learning as a strategy for advancing the contemporary university and the discipline of history / Bill M. Donovan -- Service-learning, academically based community service, and the historic mission of the American urban research university / Ira Harkavy -- Emerson's prophecy / John Saltmarsh -- Service-learning and history: training the metaphorical mind / J. Matthew Gallman -- Turnerian frontier: a new approach to the study of the American character / Michael Zuckerman -- Reflections of a historian on teaching a service-learning course about poverty and homelessness in America / Albert Camarillo -- History as public work / Elisa von Joeden-Fogerty and John Puckett -- Reclaiming the historical tradition of service in the African-American community / Beverly W. Jones -- Service-learning as a tool of engagement: from Thomas Aquinas to Che Guevara / Bill M. Donovan -- Serving and learning in the Chilean Desert / Marshall C. Eakin -- Classical studies and the search for community / Ralph M. Rosen -- Unspoken purposes of service-learning: teaching the Holocaust / Steve Hochstadt.