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Beach Books and Blind Dates

Ashley Thorne

The first-year reading program at Williams College, โ€œturned out to be kind of like a bad blind date,โ€ wrote Michaela Morton, a freshman at the time, inย an article in...

The Readerโ€™s Progress

Ashley Thorne

In the summer of 2006, I was luxuriating in the sunlit plazas of a city in Southern France, drinking in Mediterranean languor and la belle langue . Montpellier was...

Unbiasing American History

Ashley Thorne

How do American colleges and universities teach American history? Conservatives may have a ready answer: poorly. But a ready answer can just as readily be deflected. At the National...