Historian and librarian Chris Sweet ’01 knows how to make an entrance. In April, he returned to campus with a penny-farthing, a high-wheeled bicycle from the 1870-1880s.
For generations, young Americans grew up with a story — often simplistic, certainly mythic — that gave coherence to the nation’s past and purpose to its future. Today, many don’t. The answer is not to hand them a single, “better” version of the past. What they really need are better ways of learning history.
At its annual spring meeting on May 15, the Augustana College Board of Trustees unanimously approved promotion and tenure for nine faculty members.
