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Month: September 2016

Woeful Ignorance and the Need of History Professors

Posted on September 7, 2016 · 1 Comment

by Timothy Huebner U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, recently made news by suggesting that we no longer need professors.  They are too expensive, he argued.  The example he gave was that those taking courses on the American Civil War could simply watch the Ken Burns PBS video series instead. According to a story […]

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