The Early Modern World

The Early Modern World, a collection of essays from the early modern period and edited by Jeremy, is now available. View the table of contents and purchase your copy on Amazon. Some of you know that I am an educator by profession and I often think about strategies to improve student learning in the humanities, which is in a dismal state thanks to the so-called “war on the humanities.” But I also think there are a set of problems, let’s call them micro-problems, driving students away from the humanities and wholly under the control of professors: course materials and teaching methods....