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Coping With Loss

Grief is the price of love.

By Steven Mintz

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What Should a Public Research University Be?

How about a city of intellect?

By Steven Mintz

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Nostalgia Is a Hell of a Drug

American childhood and the ambiguities of progress.

By Steven Mintz

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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?

By Steven Mintz

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Reckoning With the Problem of Collective Evil

How to teach about historical injustices.

By Steven Mintz

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Writing With Style, Force, Flair and Impact

How to get your students to love language and take pleasure in writing.

By Steven Mintz

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The Politics, Psychology, History and Sociology of Conspiracy Thinking

Why popular culture loves conspiracies and what that means for college teaching.

By Steven Mintz