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Pew Research chart showing rising earnings disparity between young adults with and without college degrees

Pushing Everyone Into College Was a Policy Response to Other Policy

None of it happened by mistake.
by Freddie deBoer via Freddie deBoer on November 21, 2022
Illustration of a fist smashing a tiny blue academic building.

The 50-Year War on Higher Education

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 14, 2022
Buckingham Palace [photo: flickr.com/lorentey/]

American Higher Education’s Past Was Gilded, Not Golden

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Academe on October 14, 2022
Illustration overlaying an image of Lucille Brown and a group of women over an image of Howard University

Higher Ed and the Policing of Memory

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.
by Danielle Conway via The Forum on August 8, 2022
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College Costs

Historical perspectives on the money that fuels American higher education, and Americans’ attempts to reckon with the power dynamics that result.
Picture of John Silber in a tuxedo.

Saving John Silber

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.
by Howard Husock via National Affairs on July 5, 2022
Chains with ivy on it

Endowed by Slavery

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2022
Cameron Maynard stands at attention by the monument to Confederate soldiers at the South Carolina Statehouse on July 10, 2017, in Columbia, S.C.
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What We’ve Gotten Wrong About the History of Reconstruction

The erasure of Black leaders from the most misunderstood period in American history.
by Robert Greene II, Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on January 23, 2022
Angela Davis speaking at the Birmingham Committee for Truth and Reconciliation event at the Boutwell Auditorium on Feb. 16, 2019 in Birmingham, Ala. (Andi(cq)Rice/The Washington Post)
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Thanks to Conservative Politicans and the Media, the Education Wars Echo the 1960s

The debate once again centers on — and stokes — White parents’ anxieties.
by Kate L. Flach via Made By History on November 19, 2021
UC Berkeley campus

The Prophet of Academic Doom

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.
by Ethan Schrum via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 19, 2021
Picture of soldiers from WWI.

There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.
by William I. Hitchcock, Meghan Herwig via War on the Rocks on September 7, 2021
The 1.25-million-square-foot USC Village residential complex in Los Angeles.

The Rise of the UniverCity

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.
by Davarian L. Baldwin, Meagan Day via Jacobin on September 2, 2021
Students at Colby College

Harvard–Riverside, Round Trip

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.
by Mitchell L. Stevens via Public Books on August 11, 2021
Graduation cap on pile of money
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Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021
Police at the University of California at Berkeley guard the campus building where then-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak on Feb. 1, 2017.
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The Racist Roots of Campus Policing

Campus police forces developed as part of an effort to wall off universities from Black neighborhoods.
by Eddie R. Cole via Made By History on June 2, 2021
Aerial view of the University of Chicago
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Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.
by Davarian L. Baldwin via Made By History on April 1, 2021
A group of people comprising the Save California Ethnic Studies Coalition, sitting in a circle having a meeting in a lobby.

The History Behind California's Plans to Require Ethnic Studies for Public-School Students

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.
by Iris Kim via TIME on September 15, 2020
Deserted farm road through corn fields.

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019

Want to Save the Humanities? Make College Free

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.
by David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on May 9, 2019

The Decline of Historical Thinking

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.
by Eric Alterman via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019
Line graph of history BAs granted, peaking in the 1960s and declining in the 2010s.

The History BA Since the Great Recession

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.
by Benjamin M. Schmidt via Perspectives on History on November 26, 2018

Have Elite US Colleges Lost Their Moral Purpose Altogether?

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?
by Chad Wellmon via Aeon on August 16, 2018

Slavery and the American University

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on February 7, 2018
Women with field hockey sticks in a physical education class circa 1920.

How the US College Went from Pitiful to Powerful

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?
by David Labaree via Aeon on October 11, 2017

For-Profit Colleges in American History

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.
by A. J. Angulo via Process: A Blog for American History on June 20, 2017
Penn State University

Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good

Reform is simply not possible.
by Lisa Wade via TIME on May 19, 2017

Names in the Ivy League

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.
by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on November 26, 2015
A book on top of a column.

American Higher Ed Never Figured Out Its Purpose

The centuries-long debate over who and what college is for has yet to be resolved.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on September 18, 2025
UC Berkeley's Campus Women's Forum poster

The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict

How the first Women's Studies department was developed at U.C. Berkeley in the 1970s.
by Annabel Barry, Caroline Godard, Anna Park via Public Books on September 10, 2025
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