Brings together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities even stronger in the future.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
1. From the Land-Grant Tradition to the Current Crisis in the Humanities
Roger L. Geiger
2. Old Wine in New Bottles, or New Wine in Old Bottles? The Humanities and Liberal Education in Today’s Universities
Sheldon Rothblatt
3. We Are All Nontraditional Learners Now: Community Colleges, Long-Life Learning, and Problem-Solving Humanities
Kathleen Woodward
4. Humanities and Inclusion: A Twenty-First-Century Land-Grant University Tradition
Yolanda T. Moses
5. Sticking Up for Liberal Arts and Humanities Education: Governance, Leadership, and Fiscal Crisis
Daniel Lee Kleinman
6. Speaking the Languages of the Humanities
Charlotte Melin
7. Graduate Training for a Digital and Public Humanities
Bethany Nowviskie
8. Can the Humanities Save Medicine, and Vice Versa?
John McGowan
9. The Need for Critical University Studies
Jeffrey J. Williams
10. What Are the Humanities For? Rebuilding the Public University
Christopher Newfield
Afterword
Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
Notes on Contributors
Index

GORDON HUTNER is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, including What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960.

FEISAL G. MOHAMED is a professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. A past president of the Milton Society of America, his latest book is Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism.