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A new book challenges historians to quit studying the past through a microscope. Scott McLemee takes a look through the binoculars.

By Scott McLemee

What one university is doing to promote critical thinking. Hint: It involves a chair, a really expensive one.

Grants for digital humanities projects serve as established tradition as the new chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities welcomes grant recipients to the agency's new home in Washington.

Geography scholars examine every dissertation going back to 1888 to see how the field has changed.

Two weeks after president called for preserving campus as platform for all ideas, more than 30 student groups protest appearance by Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- a women's rights activist and a vocal, often controversial critic of Islam.

Unemployment was up in 2010, but is down in 2013.

Professor fired by Israeli university in West Bank explains why he feels allied with the controversial scholar denied a job by the University of Illinois.