Can Academic History survive, at least in its current form? Or should it? If you ask Joel Kotkin, the answer is a cautious maybe. Kotkin writes in an interesting essay, that: History has moved to the ...

The congressional appearance last month by Nemat Shafik, the president of Columbia University, was a breathtaking “What was she thinking?” episode in the history of academic freedom. It was shocking ...

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, ...

Much of the history we know is acquired not in academic classrooms, but elsewhere. In addition to learning about the past through movies, television documentaries, historical fiction and digital media ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

The Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta marks its foundation day on Wednesday. Raymond Mangion, head of the faculty’s Department of Legal History and Methodology, traces its history. The ...