Maybe it’s better when schools and students don’t observe Columbus Day.
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Maybe it’s better when schools and students don’t observe Columbus Day.
They’re calling it “black and orange day” instead.
Here’s the difference between real historians and the counterfeit variety we usually get in academe: The former bring history to life because they make an effort to know their subject.
Columbia University pledged $100 million for a more diverse workforce.
The 76-year-old public intellectual wants to get in a fist fight with 46-year-old Sebastian Gorka over one of Gorka’s speeches.
In the rare cases when schools deviate from establishment mores, they can expect a very partisan backlash.
The communist who worked propaganda into social media messages and his own wardrobe while at West Point was underwritten by U. S. taxpayers in a big way
The nation’s pre-eminent political science professors are still scratching their heads over the result of the 2016 presidential election: Perhaps they should chat with some of the people who voted for the winner rather than consult The New York Times.
A technology institute is trying to raise $20 million to rename a campus building named after Greg Gianforte, a Republican congressman who assaulted a journalist before a special election and won the election in Montana.
A student group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to put a disclaimer at a statue of President Abraham Lincoln of his role in the Dakota 38 “massacre.” The university rebuffed the demand.