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Op-Ed: Pride, History Propel LGBTQ+ Rights Forward

Insight Into Diversity

That these same labeled people grabbed hold of the word “pride” to name their movement was an act of civil disobedience against both history and language. LGBTQ+ History Month (October in the U.S.) History, of course, is a source of pride. History is another. History nourishes pride. Pride energizes history.

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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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Internationalizing Black American History

Inside Higher Ed

How we view the past is always colored by our present-day vantage point, but long before the recent surge in Black migration from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African American history and culture had an international dimension. Comparative, transnational, and diasporic history can take many different forms.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

” What he cites is not scientific and excludes basic humanity and context, the fundamentals of the historical human sciences. There is a significant literature from the 1930s on of which Newman, Heller, and too many humanities professors seem unaware. Illogically, we remained isolationist and separatist.

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What Makes Popular History Popular?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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New and Noteworthy Courses for Your Employees: December 2022

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For the first time in human history, individuals and organizations can manage and trade their assets digitally peer to peer. It examines current trends in leadership theory invoking several disciplines, including business, sociology, philosophy, history, and psychology. University of London | Consumption, Marketing and Culture.

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