This panel will explore research and curricular innovations happening on two-year-college campuses. Panelists will discuss how two-year-colleges exemplify the mission of the humanities and history as public goods, not only by providing educational access to communities largely left out of wealthier educational systems, but by providing models to bridge traditional divides between research and pedagogy, and between the college campus and the community at large. History faculty from a range of institutions will discuss the affordances of—and barriers to—doing this bridging work within their institutional and regional contexts.