historical

Empathizing with History’s Worst Is Hard. But a Quality Education Was Never Meant to Be Easy

When I arrived at Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1994, I enrolled in a class that caught my eye: “Theology and the Nazi State,” taught by Jack Forstman. Given my family’s hasty departure from the Third Reich in the late 1930s, and my own interest in theology, I was intrigued. The course turned out to be […]

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Our ‘Historically Illiterate’ Young

David McCullough on 60 Minutes last night: “We are raising children in America today who are by and large historically illiterate…I ran into some students on university campuses who were bright and attractive and likeable. And I was just stunned by how much they didn’t know. One young woman at a university in the Midwest […]

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