First Things RSS Feed - Ashley Thorne https://www.firstthings.com/author/ashley-thorne en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:50:46 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/ashley-thorne 60 Beach Books and Blind Dates https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/10/beach-books-and-blind-dates https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/10/beach-books-and-blind-dates Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:58:00 -0400 The first-year reading program at Williams College, “turned out to be kind of like a bad blind date,” wrote Michaela Morton, a freshman at the time, in  an article in the student newspaper.

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]]> The Reader’s Progress https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/08/the-readers-progress https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/08/the-readers-progress Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 progress

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]]> Unbiasing American History https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/02/unbiasing-american-history https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/02/unbiasing-american-history Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:05:00 -0500 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 Association of Scholars (NAS) we decided to find out, as precisely as possible, how history is actually taught at two major universities.

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