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The role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity--a diversity of both ideas and peoples--is not always appreciated. This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, examines that role in the half century after World War II, when exceptional prosperity and population growth, coupled with America's expanded political interaction with the world abroad, presented American higher education with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The humanities proved to be the site for important efforts to incorporate groups and doctrines that had once been excluded from the American cultural conversation. Edited and introduced by David Hollinger, this volume explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university, including the link between external changes and the rise of new academic specializations in area and other interdisciplinary studies. This volume analyzes the evolution of humanities disciplines and institutions, examines the conditions and intellectual climate in which they operate, and assesses the role and value of the humanities in society.

Demography --- Education --- Multicultural education --- Learning and scholarship --- Learned institutions and societies --- Humanities --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Academies (Learned societies) --- Learned societies --- Scholarly societies --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Classical education --- Intercultural education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Intellectual life --- Research --- Scholars --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- History --- Demographic aspects --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy --- Multicultural education History --- Multicultural education 20th century --- 20th century --- Multicultural education United States --- United States --- Learning and scholarship History --- Learning and scholarship 20th century --- Learning and scholarship United States --- Learned institutions and societies History --- Learned institutions and societies 20th century --- Learned institutions and societies United States --- Humanities History --- Humanities 20th century --- Humanities United States --- Humanities Study and teaching (Higher)