June 12, 2016
Report: The Disappearing Continent
David Randall
Much of the European past goes missing in the new AP European History Course and Exam Description. The College Board tells the story of European history as the triumph of secular progressivism, and sh......
April 5, 2020
Article: Coronavirus and High School History
David Randall
What does COVID-19 have to do with high school history class? As it turns out, quite a lot.
July 1, 1996
Report: SUNY's Core Curricula
Empire Foundation for Policy ResearchNew York Association of Scholars
This survey of the core curricula at sixteen State University of New York campuses finds that students can avoid essential academic subjects while still meeting their degree requirements. This has led......
July 3, 2025
Academic Questions: Redeeming Roosevelt
Robert Carle
Robert Carle finds The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward O’Keefe is an important corrective to the revisionist historians who dismiss “Roosevelt as a racist, a warmonger, or......
July 3, 2025
Academic Questions: Shakespeare Cometh
Matt Manochio
The ghost of author William Shakespeare reacts to news that the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is “decolonizing” the Bard’s hometown museum.
June 27, 2025
MTC: The Scopes Trial Centenary: Evolution and Culture in 1920s America
J. Scott Turner
July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes monkey trial.” This is the fourth and last article in a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of t......
June 18, 2025
MTC: 'Why Intellectuals Are Wrong'
Collective
Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on April 22, 2025. The Observatory translated it into English from French. I have edited it, to th......
June 16, 2025
MTC: To Fight Political Polarization, Reinvest in Civics and the Liberal Arts
Jeffrey Schulman
As a history PhD, I’m used to hearing that I should have studied STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) instead. We humanities graduates often retort that our skills are underappreciated, bu......
May 22, 2025
MTC: The Fall of the University Dream
Thomas K. Lindsay
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Real Clear Education on May 01, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permissi......