4 results for '"Lawrence W. Levine"'

In response to recent "right-wing" books attacking the contemporary university and blaming educators for a decline in American culture, Levine argues that the "opening up" of American education and...

"The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past that is unpredictable." But it is not solely in totalitarian societies that the past is contested terrain. Disagreements...

Winner of the 2011 Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American HistoriansMany Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and...