Inside Higher Ed

How History Can Reclaim Its Relevance in the 21st Century

The discipline of history, while continuing to produce valuable scholarship, is in a rut. The kind of methodological, conceptual and theoretical breakthroughs that took place in the 1970s—with the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Beyond the Text

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...
Princeton University

Natalie Zemon Davis, esteemed cultural historian and cherished mentor, dies at 94

Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, and a social and cultural historian, died of cancer at her home in Toronto on Oct. 21. She was 94. Davis, a 2013 recipient of ...
Time

Cultural Exchange Between the U.S. and China Before the Social Media Era

Democrats and Republicans united in April 2024 to pass a bill to ban TikTok in the United States. The bill, signed into law by President Joseph Biden, enacts a further clampdown on the reach of ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Addressing the Social and Cultural Norms that Underlie the Acceptance of Violence: A Workshop

The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...
csis.org

Whither the United States on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights?

The U.S. government has long had an ambivalent approach toward economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR). The United States played a central role in articulating these rights and ensuring that they ...