Jay Barry has been a history teacher at Arlington High School for twenty-three years. He has primarily taught U.S. History over the past several years. Jay’s work in the area of applied history began in 2017 and led to a full-year sabbatical from teaching during the 2022-2023 school year, thanks to a grant from the Stanton Foundation and support from the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Applied History Project. During this sabbatical year and beyond he developed case studies, made numerous presentations on applied history to high school history departments, ran several teacher workshops in applied history, and connected with a number of college and university professors. His upcoming book, Past Forward: An Applied History Approach to Teaching U.S. History, will be published by Hachette UK.