Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

No British colonies. No American Revolution. Just a continent shaped by French influence in culture, politics, and power. The ripple effects would change the world.

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

Yes, patriotism tends to be used more positively, and we might talk of someone who’s done something “wonderfully patriotic” for their country. Nationalism, meanwhile, tends to be viewed more ...