The Teaching of Western Civilization is Being Neglected at Harvard
“Western countries are literally put in their place as an ugly growth on the back side of Eurasia”
Sadly, this is happening at a lot of schools.
From the Daily Signal:
Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history.
James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts.
Now Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches what Harvard doesn’t—“The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. Vol. 1”—has decamped for the University of Florida’s Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education.
It’s not the warmer weather that’s drawn him away from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It’s the contrast in intellectual climates: frozen and dead, where Western history is concerned, at Harvard; full of green shoots at the University of Florida.
“We have not hired with tenure a historian in a Western field—ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern—in a decade,” Hankins says about his Harvard department, which in that time “lost eight senior historians in Western fields—all major figures—through death, retirement or departure for other universities. I will be the ninth, and I am not expecting to be replaced.”
The loss isn’t just Harvard’s: “The replacement of Western history by global history” has done “serious harm … to the socialization of young Americans,” the historian warns in Compact Magazine.
“When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized.”
In the 40 years Hankins taught at Harvard, he saw his profession shift its focus from European civilization to cultures once considered barbarian:
“In this absurdist rendering of world history, Central Asian peoples,” for example, “are presented as the drivers of cultural innovation, spreading their benign influence east and west via the Silk Road.”
This is marketed as “‘de-centering the West,’ where Western countries are literally put in their place as an ugly growth on the back side of Eurasia.”
Mongol hordes aren’t the only protagonists of the new history, however: anyone who isn’t white qualifies.
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here is the syllabus for western history being taught::
enslavers colonizers capitalist pigs
africa created all the comforts that we have and the wht euros stole it from them and claimed they created it all
There is more to this story than Harvard’s abandonment of western civilization.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/why-im-leaving-harvard/
Harvard is anti-white and anti-western and all in on diversity. Merit means nothing to them. And it’s not only them. Should be no surprise to anyone here,
Harvard has become anti-civilization. “Our vision is ruling over the ashes.”
Harvard is like Steinway. Ride the reputation as long as you can. But, folks soon wake up.