Education

The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.

Sex-specific physical education granted women rare authority over their bodies, but also promoted a narrow biological model of womanhood.

Nearly two decades ago, historians embraced a hugely wasteful federal education program. It’s past time to reckon with that.

(When It’s Already Summarized in This Article?)

Caroline Winterer tells Peter about a debate over practicality and purpose in higher education after the Civil War, and how the humanities offered a solution.

On violence and disorder in the early years of UVA, and the threat it posed to Thomas Jefferson’s vision for American higher education.

Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.

From 1958: Is the problem with the Ivory Tower mental or moral?