winter 2015
Essays

School Reform Fails the Test

How can our schools get better when we’ve made our teachers the problem and not the solution?

Essays

School Reform Fails the Test

How can our schools get better when we’ve made our teachers the problem and not the solution?

ARTICLES

Habits of Mind

Why college students who do serious historical research become independent, analytical thinkers

What I Have Taught—and Learned

After 50 years as a professor, I understand that my job is to make students think hard about thinking

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Remains

Life on Eagle Pond Farm

For Better and for Worse

The aftermath of a disorienting divorce

Traveling Corpse

How an American sergeant’s journey through frigid North Russia inspired a work of historical fiction

Habits of Mind

Why college students who do serious historical research become independent, analytical thinkers

What I Have Taught—and Learned

After 50 years as a professor, I understand that my job is to make students think hard about thinking

Woods.jpg

Remains

Life on Eagle Pond Farm

For Better and for Worse

The aftermath of a disorienting divorce

Traveling Corpse

How an American sergeant’s journey through frigid North Russia inspired a work of historical fiction

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Jazz and Bras

Add basketball and you have a few of my favorite American things

book reviews

Persecution Complex

A young Bolshevik revolutionary's unlikely and bloody rise to power

The Crisis Up Close

Wandering our warming world

Cruel Spring

A dark time in the city of light

To Flee or Not to Flee

The stigma of failed courage

Champion of Modernism

A literary life on the edge

Breaking the Bonds

How runaway slaves got North