Jan 1, 2019
We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society.
Eugene Genovese (1930-2012).
Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012)[1] was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.[2][3] He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power,[2] class and relations between planters and slaves in the South.[3] His book Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize.[4] He later abandoned the left and Marxism and embraced traditionalist conservatism.