Can Academic History survive, at least in its current form? Or should it? If you ask Joel Kotkin, the answer is a cautious maybe. Kotkin writes in an interesting essay, that: History has moved to the ...

I feel compelled to read about the implosion of academia, having myself quit higher-ed as a profession in favor of more hands-on policy work. Any destruction is morbidly fascinating; self-caused ones, ...

The trouble started with a writer on deadline. James Sweet, who goes by Jim, is a white professor of African history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former president of the American ...

Much of the history we know is acquired not in academic classrooms, but elsewhere. In addition to learning about the past through movies, television documentaries, historical fiction and digital media ...

“History staff in several large Australian universities would now fail to muster sufficient numbers for a cricket team,” notes the ANU’s Professor Frank Bongiorno, “where once they could have fielded ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

The major program in history provides students with an understanding of the human experience through the analysis of evidence derived from both the recent and more distant past. As history majors, ...