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Margee Ensign is stepping down as head of Dickinson College to go back to the American University of Nigeria.

Byron Williams Winston-Salem Journal There is a growing belief that civics, generally defined as the rights and responsibilities of the citizen, has a role to play in fortifying the 21st American experiment. American civics is essential to sustaining our democratic-republican form of government. The vitality embedded in the phrases “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” “We the people,” and “government of the people, by the people, and for the people...

Column: A well-founded pessimism about our future Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 5/19/2021 9:35:47 AM Years ago I had a fishing buddy who was also a history professor. We usually cast our flies from opposite ends of a large aluminum scow; and when fishing was slow, we just trolled around the pond and talked. I learned more during those sessions about the details of building the Panam...

Psychiatry Confronts Its Racist Past, and Tries to Make Amends Judith Warner, New York Times, April 30, 2021 Dr. Benjamin Rush, the 18th-century doctor who is often called the “father” of American psychiatry, held the racist belief that Black skin was the result of a mild form of leprosy. He called the condition “negritude.” His onetime apprentice, Dr. Samuel Cartwright, spread the falsehood throughout the antebellum South that enslaved people who experienced an unyielding desire to be ...

The death of capital punishment in the United States is not only desirable but also paradoxical. Attempts to make this practice constitutional have enveloped it with ever-more-refined procedural safeguards intended to make it compatible with the Eighth Amendment’s proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.” But the safeguards have made it increasingly like then-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s1972 description of it as “cruel and unusual in the same way that b...

GEORGE WILL WASHINGTON — The death of capital punishment in the United States is not only desirable but also paradoxical. Attempts to make this practice constitutional have enveloped it with ever-more-refined procedural safeguards intended to make it compatible with the Eighth Amendment’s proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.” But the safeguards have made it increasingly like then-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s1972 description of it as “cruel and unusual in the sa...

Noah Webster was an all-around do-gooder of the founding generation. He is remembered specifically for his blue-backed speller and the leading role he played in the creation of an American dictionary. In the speller, first published in 1783, he supplied a much-needed textbook. With it and other schoolbooks, Webster helped spread the founding mythos of the republic. In his 1828 dictionary, he built a monument to American authors and usage. But, in the course of a busy remarkable life, Webster ma...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Dickinson College has long been proud of its Colonial-era history, one framed forever by its standing as the first college to be chartered west of the Susquehanna River, launched to ensure the expanding frontiers of the new American nation would have access to future leaders educated to the highest standards of the day. But what about the people who — at the time of the college’s founding and literally for decades thereafter — didn’t fit within the ...

Istock/tarikvision Without question, undergraduate education in the United States has an affordability challenge, one that began long before the pandemic. To date, however, no one has come up with sufficiently disruptive proposals to reinvent colleges in ways that contain or reduce the price that students and their families pay -- or the accompanying debt they often must shoulder. Rethinking higher education is now even more compelling, given COVID-19 and the significant pivot of colleges and u...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Dickinson College has long been proud of its Colonial-era history,...