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The Discovery of Risk

Safetyism and its social consequences, or how to bring risk into the college classroom.

By Steven Mintz

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Shakespeare, Still Our Contemporary

Why the bard lives on.

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Moving Beyond Music Theory’s White Racial Frame

Philip Ewell’s re-examination of and recommendations for the field of music theory.

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The End of an Era

What the falling American Jewish birth rate means for higher education.

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Myths of American Innocence

Sentimentality in middle-class American culture.

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Not Psychohistory. Not the History of Psychology, but Historical Psychology

What if we studied human psychology through a historical lens?

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Writing the History of Our Time

Four contrasting approaches.

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Making a College Education More Purposeful

Can commuter schools, research universities and underresourced campuses provide the kind of developmental and transformational education we used to associate with small liberal arts colleges?

By Steven Mintz