Kamadia interviews leading historian Christian W. McMillen to see if paying attention to history might have spared us from excessive suffering
6 min read John Broich, Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, defends himself and other intellectuals is this charged piece
"If you want to step back and think more broadly about Coronavirus, the Universe and Everything, you could," writes Duncan Green, Strategic Adviser Oxfam and Professor-in-Practice LSE’s Department of International Development
3 minute read "As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for several decades, I know that current divisions pale in comparison to those of the mid-19th century," writes Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia (Feb. 19th, 2020)
"...most doctoral programs continue to train students as if their careers will hew to the lone scholar model. But what would it look like, my colleagues at the University of Michigan and I wondered, if we took a different approach?" writes Rita Chin, University of Michigan (Jan. 29th, 2020)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"Few short books have had such a big impact as John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace," writes Michael Cox, London School of Economics (Nov. 27th, 2019)
'In August 19, 2019, Afghanistan marked the 100th anniversary of its independence from Great Britain. Historic as that milestone was for Afghans, it scarcely received mention in the American press," writes Faiz Ahmed, Brown University (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"What matters most in promoting student learning in an alternative classroom setting like this is what John Dewey called the 'experiential continuum'—that is, building on previous experiences to better understand newer experiences," writes Karen Sieber, University of Maine (Oct 2nd, 2019)