History's postmodern fates.(history education)

From: Daedalus | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

As the twenty-first century begins, history occupies a unique, but not an enviable, position among the humanistic disciplines in the United States. Every time Clio examines her reflection in the magic mirror of public opinion, more voices ring out, shouting that she is the ugliest Muse of all. High school students rate history their most boring subject. Undergraduates have fled the field with the enthusiasm of rats leaving a sinking ship. Thirty years ago, some 5 percent of all undergraduates majored in history. Nowadays, around 2 percent do so. Numbers of new Ph.D.s have risen, ...

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