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Although his column was filled with strong opinions, he offered only one example of the egregious misbehavior of Harvard faculty. The Harvard history department, he claimed, can’t even be bothered to teach courses on the American Revolution. Ten minutes of research could have told him that the...
Apparently New York Times columnists don’t have to make sense. The claim that Harvard faculty have abandoned the Revolution has been making the rounds of the right-wing press for several years now. A couple of years ago, I actually received an e-mail from a correspondent...
Tierney’s version of this canard goes this way: “You might expect the Harvard history department to devote a course or two to the American Revolution or the Constitution, but those topics are too mundane. Instead, there’s a course on the diaries...
She wrote that the student body “has had its fill of radicalism. Sobered by the heavy financial burdens most of their families have to bear for their schooling, they want an education solid enough to warrant the investment. Chastened by the fall-out of the sexual revolution...
Why does Historical Study B-35, “The French Revolution: Causes, Processes, and Consequences,” satisfy a core requirement while History 1463, “Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century,” does not? Because it says so in Courses of...