Description:
A New Deal for the Humanities brings together twelve prominent scholars who shed light on the many concerns swirling around the humanities today--exploring the history of the liberal arts in America, their present state, and their future direction. The volume focuses on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers, where the decline of those fields would be most damaging, and where their strength is most threatened.
Review Quotes: "This book is an important companion and corrective to recent work. The cases made in these valuable essays are varied, subtle, and provocative, and affirm that nothing could be more important than to invest our public dollars in the humanities crucible of effective citizenry and global awareness."--Susanne Woods "Council of Independent Colleges"