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A message to Florida Republicans: Stop using the Western canon as a political pawn

John Fea   |  March 16, 2023

Roosevelt Montás directs Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship program. Annie Abrams is a public school teacher. They believe that Florida governor Ron DeSantis and one of his lackeys, Christopher Rufo, are “destroying” liberal arts education. Here is a taste of their...

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Why the Left should support classical education

John Fea   |  December 8, 2021

Over at the socialist magazine Jacobin, journalist Liza Featherstone reviews Roosevelt Montás’s Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Here is a taste: Montás is a voice in an ideological...

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Roosevelt Montas’s “heartfelt defense of the Eurocentricity of a Great Books curriculum”

John Fea   |  September 21, 2021

Historian Steve Mintz‘s recent column at Inside Higher Ed reviews Roosevelt Montas‘s forthcoming book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Here is a taste: For far too long, he...

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Tim Lacy’s New Book: “The Dream of a Democratic Culture”

John Fea   |  November 26, 2013

Anyone who travels through the history blogosphere knows the name Tim Lacy.  Tim is an active online writer and one of the founders of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History.  In fact, I would go so far as to say that...

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Books That Shaped America

John Fea   |  July 6, 2012

Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Tim Lacy reflects on the Library Congress exhibit: “Books That Shaped America.”  The exhibit includes 88 books that have been important to Americans.  It is based on an online survey in which participants are asked...

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