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...rant that these courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes in the journal Public Interest, Although interesting and certainly au courant, a history that preoccupies itself primarily with the boundaries of civilizations runs a risk of becoming marginal history...
History 10a cannot be reformed and should be simply abolished. One year ago to this day, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment, then course head for History 10a, lamented that, even at Harvard, few undergraduates study anything prior to the 19th century. Perhaps removing the rudiments of “Western Civilization”-style teaching, which makes studying the ancient past unnecessarily boring, will improve that situation. It might also halt the flow of students moving from History to other concentrations. Incidentally, a distributional requirement would automatically increase the attendance of pre-modern courses. Freshmen...
Rather than reading the history of Germany from the 1930s and 1940s back, Ozment says that history must be read forward to be true to the story. Germany’s path has led it to a seat in the heart of the European Union and possession a new democracy...
...could to re-title the book, I would call it The Can-Do Germans,” Ozment says. “I really want the book to show what an open, curious, successful people Germans...
Despite the book’s subtitle, though, Ozment insists that A Mighty Fortress is not a book about the masses or a people’s history. Rather he hopes that the book will recover the mainstream German history that has been lost in a post-war world...