The last two Mondays in a row, I’ve had students crying in my office. Different students, I might add. Yesterday’s visit really baffled me, though. As the young woman tried to compose herself, I handed her a tissue and encouraged her to take her time and breathe. She then told me that she was offended [...]
My students had to write their final papers about the cost of a good life and many of them chose to write about fighting for social justice and social change. Of these students, many argued that Dr. King was assassinated because of his beliefs: that the cost of a good life for King was his [...]
I’m writing a lecture that I’ll give tomorrow about John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity.” Winthrop gave the sermon in 1630, aboard the Arbella, as he and about a thousand other Puritans headed for the New World. It’s always hard to teach history to undergraduates because they are easily bored and their idea of [...]