Steven Conn is a professor of history at Miami University, in Ohio, and helps run the project Picturing Black History, in collaboration with Getty Images.
Stories by This Author
The Review | Opinion
Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.
The Review
Even measured by their own standards, these finishing schools for junior executives are academic failures.
The Review
If historians don’t provide our country with grand narratives, sneaky demagogues will.
The Review
Humanities departments have been structured for failure, and like those Greek pensioners being lectured by Angela Merkel, we’ve been told it’s our fault.
The Conversation
Steven Conn reveals the institution’s new motto, which he says is far more accurate, and realistic, than the old, civic-minded one.
The Conversation
All their lives, today’s students have been told exactly what they need to do to get a good grade. Now they expect their college professors to continue holding their hands, says Steven Conn.
The Conversation
“Do it yourself” is a sinister, administrator-driven idea to make faculty members do more for less. Steven Conn protests.
The Conversation
The Ohio State University board failed in handling E. Gordon Gee’s hiring, not to mention his retirement.
The Conversation
E. Gordon Gee’s retirement is less about the gaffes he made than it is about the power of college sports, Steven Conn writes.
Point of View
To what extent has the growth in seriousness of sports at that level contributed to the general dumbing down of public education?