The Evolution of Christmas
…to Christmas include the decoration of small trees. Although evidence that Christmas originated from these Roman holidays is scant, these hypotheses have a long history. For instance, Scottish anthropologist Sir…
…to Christmas include the decoration of small trees. Although evidence that Christmas originated from these Roman holidays is scant, these hypotheses have a long history. For instance, Scottish anthropologist Sir…
…of the realm. The academy is, ultimately, a zero-sum game. The history of hype-inflation is well known. Better to kill it off sooner than later. Article 1, Section 10 of…
…struggle for freedom, commerce, and reason in a country that has abandoned those virtues, but which can still access the history, willpower, and intelligence needed to recover them. The world…
…a bunch of venal thugs and terrorists. Mostly, yes—but Bobby Sands died in a hunger strike in the Maze, and a British Tory would be ill-advised to write a history…
…the roots of fascism and anti-Semitism in American higher education run very deep, reaching back to the 1930s and earlier. I am a professor of music theory and history at…
…and well-documented history in North America of prejudice and discrimination against Jews, notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. and Canada offered Jews protection and opportunity far greater than they enjoyed…
…(especially anything based on fossil fuel, which is virtually everything), Western forms of government, Western religion, history itself, and at its far edges, even rational thought. But sometimes it is…
…and economic success since 1948—even though their suffering, as a people, is unparalleled in modern history. This lazy way of understanding the world teaches students to make simple, uncompromising judgments,…
…be gray areas—has provocative speech gone too far by potentially criminally endangering people or property? While Holmes was a significant name in American legal history, so was University of Chicago…
…remains elusive. Gallery Three ─ The Continuity of Disciplinary Knowledge, Art History The final room feels familiar. The images draw on artists across several centuries. Their images represent authority…
…accumulated in art history and related disciplines. True, the discipline of art history can continue as an academic silo, as the other two rooms are not really needed to explain…
…universal values, democratic institutions, and civic participation. Ethnic nationalism, by contrast, is used to refer to any nationalism which draws upon language, culture, history, or religion. In other words: any…
…city remarkable for its history and culture. That the bombing was a shameful war crime against innocent civilian German non-combatants was told by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He…
…wait a second—should any of this matter? For me, it does because I’m also interested in Jefferson’s aesthetic program, his relationship with Sally Hemings, and his understanding of Mediterranean history…
…Bourque. The Swordfish Hunters: The History and Ecology of an Ancient American Sea People. Piermont, New Hampshire: Bunker Hill Publishing. 2012. Herbert M. Sylvester. Indian Wars of New England. Three…
…of God. Thanksgiving is also a day to think about America’s history. There is much debate around the factual accuracy of the retelling of the first Thanksgiving, including when it…
…brazenly called for Jewish genocide. A Cornell Professor of History—apparently disregarding the complex history of the Middle East involving both Jews and Muslims— called Hamas’ attacks on Israel exhilarating. A…
…courses that one took per semester, it was highly intensive. The first semester dealt with the history and cultures of the peoples involved—namely, Germans and Jews. Then the actual destruction…
…times. We favor a view of liberal education that emphasizes a breadth of understanding of core subjects, including Western civilization, American history, and the natural sciences. The other parts of…
…Yet now far too few Americans know the history and ideals of their country, rooted in the deeper history of the West. Our K-12 schools stopped teaching what used to…
…at NIST. Early in its history as the NBS, NIST directors were chosen from staff, who served long terms (Figure 4). Beginning in the 2000s, NIST directors have been appointed…
…and the only male was black—do white males need not apply? The prevailing campus view seems to be: “American society has been badly messed up by white males over history,…
…founders—among them Bari Weiss, Niall Ferguson, Joe Lonsdale, and, of course, Pano Kanelos—believe that understanding history is crucial for shaping a better future and asserts that institutions of higher education…
…history—even fairly recent history. Early school directors, such as Walter Runke from Utah’s Panguitch Boarding School, noted that Native American children seemed to be inherently susceptible to diseases, such as…
…a conference). In 2021, for instance, the center hosted a talk by Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of history at Columbia, entitled “The Latest Chapter in the Hundred Years…
…in Israel are avowedly and sometimes militantly secular. Kedar, a former officer in the Israeli Defense Forces, has spent his academic life studying Islamic and Arab history and society. He…
…like an addendum to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Jews are devoid of humanity, a demonic people responsible for everything Hamas objects to in human history, from the French Revolution to World…
…the study of American history, government, or both in state universities, it requires student exposure to critically important documents from American history, bans mandatory diversity training promoting a progressive political…
…were physically injured. Given this history, and the history described in my previous article, it is no surprise that neo-Marxist, “anti-racist” groups like Black Lives Matter and the “Diversity, Equity,…
…imperialism and only European imperialism. The world’s long history of many imperial states, including current non-European ones, is ignored. No mention is made of Islamic imperialism in which Bedouin tribes…