“…The perspective of IS history in this department continues the efforts of the Association for Information System (AIS) historian Ping Zhang to accomplish the goals of the IS history initiative: 1) to collect, represent, and preserve the IS field's history; 2) to interpret, write, disseminate, and review the IS field's history; and 3) to discover/identify IS genealogy, roots, sources, and facets that deserve to be examined from a historical point of view (Zhang, 2015(Zhang, , 2016. These goals, together with several other recent deliberations on the importance of focusing on IS history (Bryant, Black, Land, & Porra, 2013;Hirschheim & Klein, 2011Hirschheim, Saunders, & Straub, 2012;Land, 2010Land, , 2015Straub, 2015), emphasize the sense of urgency for the field to engage in this effort.…”