Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...

Where do good ideas come from?

Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...

Ramsey offers a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study...

Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.

Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...

Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...

Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...

The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...

García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...

"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?

Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...

Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

How does the world of book reviews work?