The Gun Lobby’s Grip: Campus Carry in Kansas
Scholar-activist Megan Jones reveals the ties between NRA lobbyists and the Kansas legislature that resulted in open-carry campuses across the state.
Tag: higher education
Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?: Maybe, Maybe Not
Neoliberalism is an incredibly complex system of political economy and there are many more questions to answer. Still, as the contributors all brought up this month, historians have an important role in deconstructing an abusive market system.
Academe’s Bad Behavior
The university stands at a crossroad, and a decision is needed as to which direction it will go, whether it will cast off its foolish consistency in preserving the hegemonic forces that have arrested the development of the mind or renew itself as the last place to question and possibly upset the status quo.
Whose Heritage?: Building Understanding Through Better Teaching
White children who were taught history lessons including information about racism experienced by African Americans demonstrated less biased attitudes toward African Americans than their white counterparts who received otherwise identical lessons that omitted those ‘pessimistic, unpatriotic’ teachings.
Review: A Time of Upheaval, Unit 8 of Joyce Appleby’s The American Vision
Perhaps not surprising, The American Vision is not one to focus on government malfeasance. The Vietnam War chapter in particular is open to this criticism.
On Loneliness and the Reason Why: Experiences as a Native Academic
Academic life, as a Native woman, is realizing that your physical presence is unsettling to those in power, because your body and existence are a reminder of a horrific history they’d like to forget.
Racism Is Making Us Sick
Since 2003, Active Minds has empowered students facing mental health struggles to share their stories to let others know they’re not alone and to spread that message: help and hope are available.
The Activist History Review 