He felt that he was “the Rip Van Winkle of the sustainability group” at the MLA and mentioned that twenty years ago, this was an issue at the MLA’s annual convention.
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America Betrayed By Elites
When you compare meticulously researched commercial histories with the extended blogs that pass for academic ones, you come to a startling revelation: Just about everything we’ve been taught about our history is wrong.
Gray Lady Wakes Up
The dearth of history courses in American colleges and universities has become so obvious that even the New York Times has noticed.
Communism Unmasked
The new book, Spies, The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009) provides us with valuable new information about how the KGB penetrated the United States government in the 1930s and 40s.
Red China & JHU
Johns Hopkins University not only has a history with China but at least one notable communist sympathizer in its hall of famed scholars—Owen Lattimore, who whitewashed many of Mao Tse Tung’s earliest massacres in his official reports.
American History Inside Out
A look at views of how American history is taught from within the academy differs radically from the perspective that you get from so-called outsiders and helps to show why the latter make more reliable historians than the former.
American History Accurately
David McCullough gives some insight as to why the Ivory Tower produces such, at best, lackluster histories.
Know Much About History?
If you doubt that America is in danger of losing her heritage, listen to the take on the teaching of American history by this country’s leading historian.