By Sherman Dorn on July 4, 2005
I’m an educational historian, and sometimes there are gems in my field that say something to the world at large. Today, it’s from the wartime court decision on the Pledge of Allegiance, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943): If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no […]
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By Sherman Dorn on July 4, 2005
Thanks to former history grad student eb‘s reorganization of the blog no great matter, I found out about two of Timothy Burke’s entries on intellectual diversity from February and December 2004. In them, Burke points out the more subtle ruts that academics fall into based on disciplinary and institutional mores and suggests that most academics […]
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On patriotism and principles
By Sherman Dorn on July 4, 2005
I’m an educational historian, and sometimes there are gems in my field that say something to the world at large. Today, it’s from the wartime court decision on the Pledge of Allegiance, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943): If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no […]
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