Daniel Scroop, a historian of the United States based at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and currently a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S., charts the relationship between U.S. history and the public realm since the e…

In recent years, American public life has entered a period of reassessment and backlash. The post-2020 surge in anti-racist politics has been met by the rollback of affirmative action, growing skepticism toward DEI init…

Since 1985, the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies has provided opportunities for humanistic research and study to students and faculty at CMC. During this 40th anniversary celebration, in addition to reminiscences abo…

Learn about careers in human rights and the Elbaz Family Post-Graduate Fellowship program, sponsored by CMC’s Mgrublian Center for Human Rights. Join the two recipients of the 2024 Elbaz Family Post-Graduate Fellowship…

According to a recent poll, fewer than one in five Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job. With modern Congress largely absent from many prominent policy debates, recent Congresses have been among the…

To mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, David Armitage, Harvard's Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, traces the Declaration's travels around the globe, to show how its meaning for Amer…

The 2025-26 United States Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's poetry is recognized for its "intellectual and visceral experience" (Brooklyn Rail). The Library of Congress describes his "poetry as distinctly American in its focus…

Ambassador Michael McFaul’s new book, Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder, challenges the conventional wisdom that the United States has entered a “Cold War 2.0” with China and i…