Lost in Conversation, Episode 3. On the Decline of Historical Study in America with historian Richard Drake.

Show notes:

In this episode Leland Buck talks to Richard Drake about the decline in historical study at American universities and explores the broader ramifications of the decline in the humanities in American society and politics.

For more information about Richard Drake, visit his website http://www.richardrdrake.com

Books by Richard Drake:

1. Byzantium for Rome: The Politics of Nostalgia in Umbertian Italy, 1878-1900 (1980)

2. The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy (1989)

3. The Aldo Moro Murder Case (1995)

4. Apostles and Agitators: Italy’s Marxist Revolutionary Tradition (2003)

5. The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion (2013)

6. Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism (2018)

7. New book on William Appleman Williams coming soon

Here is a list of all the books referenced in this conversation:

Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9788027343997

Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780394703176

John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780615952093

George Orwell, 1984 https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780451524935

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780063068445

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, et al., The Federalist Papers https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780451528810

William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780393079791

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780199552368

Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780393356175

Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics https://bookshop.org/a/81130/9780393307955

James J. Martin, Revisionist Viewpoints: Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition https://www.amazon.com/Revisionist-Viewpoints-Dissident-Historical-Tradition/dp/0879260084

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