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The article presents a roundtable discussion on teaching U.S. history, society and culture, presented at the 2017 Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States conference at University College Dublin in Ireland. Topics discussed include race, the state of precarity and U.S. studies in Great Britain, gender and U.S. history, and the value of a teaching fellowship.

The article presents a roundtable discussion containing presentations delivered at the conferences of the British and Irish Association for American Studies (IBAAS) on April 9, 2016 at Queen's University Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Topics include the notion of a second project in relation to the career of an academic researcher, the significance of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for British academics, and job seeking techniques for early career researchers (ECR) in relation to research.

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various articles in the journal on topics including the post-Hurricane Katrina works of authors Jesmyn Ward and Kara Walker, the U.S. group known as the American Friends of the Middle East (AFME), and the novel "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson.