Art history is a discipline that deepens the understanding of humanity's diverse visual experiences and examines the political, sociological and cultural contexts that shape the creation of art.

Public sociology. Public and applied history. Public humanities. Science in the public interest. Across the disciplines, we hear renewed calls for an active public role for academics. We also hear ...

The discipline of history is in serious decline, as both practitioners and the public lack confidence that it can be a truth-seeking enterprise or provide a coherent account of the past. The so-called ...

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 ...

I n his recent essay in these pages on the vexed question of “presentism” in the discipline of history, David Bell offers a soothing alternative to the American Historical Association president James ...

Saisudha Acharya’s History Unpacked book series was conceived when she was teaching at the alternative school her son attended. “We weren’t restricted by textbooks, so it allowed me to try to get them ...

Learn about The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) or visit https://chicagoraceriot.org/ The Department of History's M.A. program provides ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Where is Dr. Johnson when we need him? How well could we profit from his scruples when it comes to the question ...