Once upon a time in the bad old days you couldn’t graduate from most colleges and universities without taking a course in both American and European history. Nobody grumbled about it. We were prisoners...
According to legend, a lady stopped Benjamin Franklin as the Framers of our Constitution emerged from their deliberations. “What kind of a country have you given us?” the lady inquired. “A republic, Madame, if...
Just in time for the nation’s recognition of Independence Day, a Washington based nonprofit group that favors the study of liberal arts in college tossed a stink bomb into the celebration. In a sobering...
A question for you before you set off your fireworks: Who was the American general at Yorktown? You have four guesses: William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur or George Washington. When that...
Listen up, class. We hate to spoil your holiday weekend, but an alarming new survey of American history knowledge 2/3–released just days before Independence Day, no less 2/3–suggests that the nation is in desperate...
To Danny Thau and his colleague David Burns, it seemed like a fruitful avenue of inquiry: What would have happened to the planet if Ike hadn’t launched D-Day exactly when he did–56 years ago...
In the growing nationwide battle over who really runs higher education–the professors or the university trustees–one of the most closely watched contests is taking place here, at the State University of New York. To...
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