Book Spotlight: Leadership: In Turbulent Times
By Doris Kearns Goodwin WF ‘64 What makes a leader? Although singular in personalities, challenges, and time periods, the presidents featured in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s newest book all drew upon their own distinct styles of leadership to guide the country and better the lives of its people. By studying the early public careers of Abraham […]
Teaching History in the 21st Century
Martiza Rivera playtests a game with other WW HistoryQuest Fellows at the 2018 Summer Institute. In the era of smartphones and one-to-one laptops in schools, students have incredible access to information. Says Scott Kallens HQ ‘15, “if I ask my students a trivia-based question, they can find that answer inside of five seconds.” “But […]
Accessible History: A mission
“A lot of Americans are, at best, historically semi-literate. Many of them, unfortunately, are historically illiterate.” James McPherson WF ‘58, the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton University, has made it his mission to bridge the gap between the academic and general audience studies of the American Civil War. “I […]
Making History Accessible
HISTORY FOR ALL: ERICA ARMSTRONG DUNBAR ON MAKING HISTORY ACCESSIBLE History, according to Erica Armstrong Dunbar CEF ’03, is imperative. “I believe that as a scholar it’s my responsibility to offer scholarship to people beyond the academies,” says Dr. Dunbar. “I firmly believe that knowledge is not just for the learned—that knowledge has to be […]
Being Square with History
Jill Lepore CN ’93 A wide-angle history of the United States, with tightly drawn throughlines anchored to its great premises, fine-grained attention to its everyday moments, a deep-rooted sense of its unresolved tensions: These Truths by Jill Lepore CN ‘93 may be the most ambitious work of its kind in decades, as reviewers nationwide have attested since […]
New Book By, Remembrance of Charles Krauthammer
“This is a gift—that we intrinsically have this sense of reverence for the U.S. Constitution,” writes Charles Krauthammer WF ‘70 H in a new posthumous book. For decades, Dr. Krauthammer offered thoughtful political commentary in his weekly, syndicated column for The Washington Post and through his nightly appearances on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” In 1987, he […]
Students of WW HistoryQuest Fellow Create Museum Resources
Pictured at a November 2018 book signing for If These Stones Could Talk are (l-r) Cynthia Assini, District Social Studies Supervisor for the Hillsborough Township Public Schools; co-authors Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills; and Scott Kallens, WW HistoryQuest Fellow and history teacher at Hillsborough High School. The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) is a new museum […]
Vast Views, Close to Home
(Photo courtesy Elena Zhukova/UC Santa Cruz) Sandra Faber WF ’66 H has been studying the formation of galaxies for more than 40 years. She has played key roles in the discovery of dark matter in the universe and supermassive black holes in the nuclei of galaxies. Widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on […]
An Entire Life of Idealism
Michael O’Donnell on 50 years at UVA-Wise “I look upon this next stage of my education as the culmination of the plan I have been following broadly since I first entered secondary school, a plan that has as its goal my becoming a university instructor,” wrote 23-year-old Michael O’Donnell WF ’66 in his application for […]
The Liberal Arts for All
JUDITH R. SHAPIRO WF ’63 H ON NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP The move from leading a higher education institution to leading a nonprofit was not so great a leap, says Judith R. Shapiro WF H ’63. “It’s so connected to what my whole life’s work has been about”—liberal arts education. As president of Barnard College from 1994 […]