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• 6/16/19
  

  Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference: Day 2 Coverage

  by Miriam Lipton

  What was the global significane of the Civil War? What exactly is the definition of “freedom?” How are Donald Duck, Indiana Jones, and anti-modernizationistsconnected? The second day of the Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference was highlighted by experts’ bold answers to these ambitious questions.

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• 6/16/19
  

  "Donald Trump and Ideology:" Dr. James Lindsay Delivers the Governor Tom McCall Memorial Lecture

  by Miriam Lipton and Marcelo Carocci

  History and Trump's ideology of American power and foreign relations.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference: Day 1 Coverage

  by Marcelo Carocci

  The conference brought together academic and independent historians and political scientists from universities all-round the US and England to discuss the history of ideology and US foreign policy from many different points of view.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Environmental Historian Sara Dant: "History Is As Relevant Today As Ever."

  by Korina Ike

  "We have many challenges - environment, politics, social, cultural - that are the end-product of our historical arc.  Understanding how we got here, what has worked and what hasn’t in the past, gives us the best chance of moving forward successfully."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/11/19
  

  What Naomi Wolf and Cokie Roberts teach us about the need for historians

  by Karin Wulf

  Without historical training, it’s easy to make big mistakes about the past.

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• 6/9/19
  

  Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Over the past 40 years, the average cost of attending a four-year college increased by over 150 percent for both public and private institutions.  

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• 6/2/19
  

  Donald Trump, the Humanities, and the Decline of American Values

  by Walter G. Moss

  We overvalue such things as making money, “getting ahead,” glitz, and celebrity status and undervalue what the humanities and arts emphasize—beauty, truth, and goodness.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/23/19
  

  When the Names on Campus Buildings Evoke a Racist Past

  Last month, the University of Minnesota board of regents held a special meeting to discuss whether to remove the names of four former university administrators at the school’s Twin Cities campus.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/21/19
  

  Why study history? Because it can save us from democratic collapse.

  by John Jeffries Martin

  What the Founding Fathers can teach us about applied historical knowledge.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Civics 101: Instilling Constitutional Literacy in Tomorrow’s Strategic Leaders

  by Gregory D. Foster

  A professor at one of the U.S. military’s senior colleges argues that if the public is to be properly served by uniformed military officers, federal civil servants, and Foreign Service Officers, their education should focus more on Civics 101. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  Historians Argue That The History Major Won’t Go the Way of the Dodo

  Featuring Philip Balson, Olivia Daniels, Ethan Ehrenhaft, Max Minshull, and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/14/19
  

  Long considered a high honor, the valedictorian tradition faces an uncertain future

  by John R. Thelin

  Though the tradition goes back to colonial times, the validity of valedictorian honor is increasingly being called into question. 

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• SOURCE: Twin Cities Pioneer Press
  5/5/19
  

  Revise, revise, revise. That’s how history works

  by Jeff Kolnick

  Revisionism is not something to be feared or rejected, nor is it something to be celebrated or revered. It is what historians do, and we do it all the time.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Sarah Lewis' grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard.

  Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  5/2/19
  

  Knute Berger: Why History is Vital to Democracy

  Berger went on the Keeping Democracy Alive podcast to discuss. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/5/19
  

  Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

  Since the 2016 presidential election, scholars have hotly debated the best way to counter the “weaponization” of the Middle Ages by a rising tide of far-right extremists.

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• SOURCE: College Fix
  5/6/19
  

  Student group demands firing of Seton Hall professor for ‘controversial’ comments

  Hoffer had called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “hate group,” and claimed that Black Lives Matter and radical Muslim terrorists are a bigger threat than the KKK and Neo-Nazis.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/30/19
  

  Attack on the AHA Couldn’t Be More Wrong

  by Joy Connolly

  "As interim President of a large public graduate school, I believe passionately in providing education that empowers students to make the most of their lives, whether or not they pursue careers in the academy."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/26/19
  

  A Moral Stain on the Profession

  by Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes

  As the humanities collapse, it’s time to name and shame the culprits.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  4/30/19
  

  Cambridge University to study how it profited from Atlantic slavery

  The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholarship reinforced race-based thinking during Britain’s colonial era.