Fall 2024

I never met a colleague in the teaching of a college history course who expected to learn very much from grading a batch of blue books. Yet an untidy pile of essays on my desk—essays designed to persuade me that …

Dear _______, In this first letter after the election you doubtless expect us to gloat over the margin, or ride you about the decline of  your party, to say that it serves you right, and “that settles that.” Of course …