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Back to SearchDaniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student Loan" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
Episode 386
With free college in the national conversation, there’s been no better time for Daniel T. Kirsch’s new book Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher E…
6 years, 4 months ago
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Episode 42
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infogr…
6 years, 4 months ago
Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school. W…
6 years, 5 months ago
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
Episode 74
In this episode of Talking Legal History, Siobhan talks with William P. Hustwit about his book Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Ji…
6 years, 5 months ago
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Episode 45
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most tra…
6 years, 5 months ago
Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School" (UVA Press, 2014)
Professor Jay Driskell of Hood College, author of Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black…
6 years, 5 months ago
Jonathan Haidt, "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" (Penguin, 2018)
Episode 55
We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean? What it is about our dispositions that makes it so hard…
6 years, 6 months ago
Anthony Kronman, "The Assault on American Excellence" (Free Press, 2019)
Episode 101
Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School, has written an account of his view of the decline of the American university from a bastion of free …
6 years, 6 months ago
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Episode 81
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude …
6 years, 6 months ago
David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Episode 38
The institutional history of mathematics in the United States comprises several entangled traditions—military, civil, academic, industrial—each of wh…
6 years, 6 months ago