Undergraduates need to see the forest, not just the trees. Given the sharp decline in the quantity and quality of history instruction in K-12 schools, students now more than ever need a big-picture ...

Enlightenment -- Reaction and recovery : the early nineteenth century -- Rise of racial determinism -- Spencerism -- Evolutionism : methods -- The evolutionists : results -- Dialectical materialism -- ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...