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The Christian University: A Call to Counterrevolution

Gertrude Himmelfarb

It is well to remember, as we contemplate the relation of the university and church, that the Protestant Reformation was started by a professor in a university. Years later...

Tradition and Creativity in the Writing of History

Gertrude Himmelfarb

For the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Postmoderns. If the...