academia

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/31/19
  

  Don't just revile Amy Wax--rebut her

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/22/19
  

  Academics Respond to Wall Street Journal Op Ed Calling Academia "Sweet Racket"

  When a misleading op-ed in The Wall Street Journal irks academics, it's time for a fact check on faculty work and pay.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  7/1/19
  

  The Lingering of Loss

  by Jill Lepore

  My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/28/19
  

  Medieval History Goes to War With Itself

  While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  6/12/19
  

  The Closure

  by Brendan O'Malley

  What happens when the college you work for closes? A first-hand account of the state of higher education. 

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• SOURCE: WSWS.org
  6/21/19
  

  The war on journalism is a war on the humanities

  by Monika Eisenhauer

  "The intention of historical science is to write the history of people and societies as objectively as possible. For this purpose it needs free and unrestricted access to the sources."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  Accessed 6/25/19
  

  The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Postmodernism

  Moira Weigel, Justin E.H. Smith, Mark Greif, Ethan Kleinberg, Marjorie Perloff, Jessica Burstein, Seo-Young Chu, David Bromwich, Anna Kornbluh, and Steven Weinberg reflect on the past, present, and future of postmodernism. 

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• 6/23/19
  

  Wealth, Access, and Archival Fetishism in the New Cold War History

  by Benjamin R. Young

  Cold War historians are only reinforcing elitist hierarchies if they continue to almost singularly hold up multinational research in previously unexplored archives as the gold standard of quality scholarship. 

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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.