I believe we have lost one of our nation’s significant voices.

A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...

Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can.

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

As Gurney’s family and friends wrestle with the loss of their friend, I hope they—or more accurately we—will lean into being lonely inside a web of love.

Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.

The administration is using the tools of the state to influence—even poison—how America’s racial history will be taught in our public forums and schools.

It’s not “divisive” to teach about division. It’s divisive to bury it.

The attempts by his administration to control the ways Americans engage with our nation’s history threaten to weaken patriotism, not strengthen it.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.

The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.

In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk.