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Nostalgia Is a Hell of a Drug
American childhood and the ambiguities of progress.
Opinion
Can an Academic Discipline Exhaust Itself?
Has U.S. history as an innovative field of academic research reached an endpoint? If so, where should junior scholars go from here?
Reckoning With the Problem of Collective Evil
How to teach about historical injustices.
Writing With Style, Force, Flair and Impact
How to get your students to love language and take pleasure in writing.
The Politics, Psychology, History and Sociology of Conspiracy Thinking
Why popular culture loves conspiracies and what that means for college teaching.
Creative Thievery and the Higher Cribbing
Thinking seriously about scholarly originality, borrowing, appropriation and theft.