Recent News

• In the New York Times, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius author Neil Maher detailed the 1960s and ’70s populist criticism of the U.S. space program—and how, over the long-term, such criticism eroded government support and led to increasingly privatized space exploration.
• On WAMC (Albany, NY)’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, listen to In Search of Deeper Learning coauthors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine discuss what the most engaging high schools do right, how U.S. public schools could change to better serve their students, and the future of Common Core curriculum standards.
• A Cal Matters interactive feature explaining California’s recent attempts to reduce police shootings was informed by Franklin Zimring’s research for When Police Kill.
• Sarah Milov’s forthcoming The Cigarette: A Political History was the uncredited basis for a WBUR (Boston, MA) Here & Now feature on America’s complex relationship with tobacco; at the Virginia Humanities–sponsored podcast BackStory, the hosts who omitted reference to Milov apologized and engaged with her in a broadly scoped, unedited conversation about the role of historians in popular media—the unique perspectives they bring, and what is owed them in return.