Peculiar Partners: Historians, Data, and the Search for Student Success in the Introductory History Course.

An introduction is presented to a special section of articles on the teaching of undergraduate introductory history courses, which includes the article entitled "Beyond Big Data: Teaching Introductory U.S. History in the Age of Student Success," by Bridget Ford and others, the report "Many Thousands Failed: A Wakeup Call to History Educators.," by Andrew Koch, a paper of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. of the as well as two replies to these articles.