Recently, a leading editor at a major academic press said bluntly that she wasn’t aware of any breakthrough scholars in U.S. history under the age of 50. In response, I mentioned several names of ...

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, ...

Before we dive into the list of colleges and universities, or anything else about the mother discipline. Imagine entering into the very first classroom of a university in history, which offered no ...

African history has gone through many incarnations as an academic discipline. Most recently, there’s been a global turn in African historiography. This shift has been prompted by a greater awareness ...

No academic discipline is inherently useless, arguesI have borrowed this title from Allan Douglas Galloway, a Scottish Professor of Theology who taught at University College Ibadan in the 1950s. At ...

With a handful of exceptions, scholarship practice and scholastic power continue to be driven by traditional discovery-based projects published in scarcity-model repositories, despite a growing ...