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Today's Globe brings news of a most unusual sort--the founding of a two-year college (for junior and senior transfer students) in New Hampshire, whose curriculum will consist solely of history classes.

The founding dean describes the project: "In a sense, the whole school is the history major you would get in a traditional college . . . This is sadly a very ahistorical country, and we think that perhaps some mistakes could be avoided if Americans knew some history."

I'd prefer to see one college or university, anywhere in the country, commit to pedagogically diverse hiring and curricular practices. But the New Hampshire initiative, if it has any chance to success, will certainly have to offer a broad array of history classes, and not simply confine itself to the pedagogical approaches currently in fashion. I hope it does well.

Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM | Comments (0) | Return

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