In the Media

Video

• Writers Talk

• The Literacy Myth Revised, Simon Fraser University Humanities Institute

• The Dallas Myth Interview on KERA Dallas

• Spotlight: Harvey J. Graff on The OSU English Department tumblr.

• “Public College Presidents’ Salaries on the Rise,” Huffington Post Live, May 20, 2014

Image

• Ohio State University Portrait

• National Humanities Center Portrait

• Graff Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Linköping, Sweden

• Portrait

• Graff with books

• Graff in office at Ohio State

Print

• OpEd for Dallas Morning News

• “Graff studies the ‘growing up’ process” in UT Dallas News, Winter 1995

• “Literacy across the curriculum” in The Centre for Literacy, Montreal , Fall, 1992

• “Outgrowing myths about childhood” in The Dallas Morning News, June 13, 1995

• “Race between San Antonio, Dallas like fabled tortoise and the hare” in San Antonio Express News, Wed., Dec. 31, 1997

• “City must create own mold for public universities” in San Antonio Express-News, Sun., Aug. 23, 1998.

• “Alamo City’s Different Futures” in San Antonio Express-News, Sun., June 24, 2001.

• “New Appointments” Making History (OSU Department of History) 2004-2005

• “Book Talk,” OSU onCampus, October 17, 2012

• “Harvey Graff on Interdisciplinarity,” featured interview in News of the National Humanities Center, Spring/Summer, 2014, 8-9, 18

• Harvey Graff explains why interdisciplinary history is often treated with disdain (interview) – History News Network, May 5, 2014

• “What Makes Ohio State the Most Unequal Public University in America?” The Nation, May 19, 2014

• “Throwing the Baby Out With the Interdisciplinary Bath Water” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12, 2014

• “Interest in Humanities Remains Strong” The Columbus Dispatch, May 18, 2015

• “Ohio State’s Arts and Sciences college is $10 million in red, but why?” The Columbus Dispatch, May 18, 2015

• “Arts and Sciences Deficits” Inside Higher Ed, June 4, 2015

• “Steve Rissing and Harvey Graff Commentary: Early-college programs lack many benefits of the real thing” The Columbus Dispatch, June 7, 2015

• Harvey J. Graff on “Mildly Interdisciplinary,” Inside Higher Education, September 8, 2015

• Harvey J. Graff, “Undisciplining Knowledge,” Inside Higher Education, September 10, 2015

• “Historian Calls on Historians to Embrace  Interdisciplinarity,” History News Network, September 10, 2015

• Harvey J. Graff, “The Undisciplinarian: 3 Questions,” Nature, September 16, 2015. Nature’s Books and Arts Blog

• “Undisciplining Knowledge” Guest Post by Harvey J. Graff, JHU Press Blog, September 2015

• “An Education in Sloganeering,” Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2015

• “Grand Challenges All Around,” Inside Higher Education, October 7, 2015

• “Degrees of Ignorance,”The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6, 2015

• “Not a Popularity Contest,” Inside Higher Ed, December 18, 2015

• “An Academic Journey: Minnesota doctoral student’s path shows the best of what mentorship can be,” OnCampus, March 10, 2016

• “Survey shows College of Arts and Sciences faculty discontent with university,” The Lantern, April 6, 2016

• “Undisciplining Knowledge: The Past and the Future of Interdisciplinarity,” Collaboration, Disciplinarity, and the Rhetoric of Inquiry Lecture Series, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 13, 2016

• “Interdisciplinarity as Ideology and Practice,” The Social Science Research Council: Items, May 17, 2016

• “Ohio State not alone in spending big on research,” The Columbus Dispatch, June 5, 2016

• Joint interview with Brian Street, University of London on the Development of Literacy Studies, Educação em Revista, (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) 32 (Summer 2016), 267-282

Universities Reading Undisciplining Knowledge:

• “New Book on Interdisciplinarity,” Message from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor, September 10, 2015

• “Chancellor continues dialog on interdisciplinary education
,” Inside UW-Green Bay News, September 15, 2015

• 2021-

• Essays 

  Celebrating Jan Reiff, UCLA History Department. Tribute, May 24 2021

  https://history.ucla.edu/content/tributes-janice-reiff

   

  “Republicans assault fact-based American history and promote popular ignorance,”

  Columbus Dispatch, May 28, 2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/05/28/harvey-j-graff- attacks-critical-race-theory-dangerous-assault-education/7466627002/

   

  “DeWine’s covid blunders and the failure of VAX-A-MILLION,” Columbus Dispatch, June 25,            2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/06/25/harvey-j-graff- dewines-blundered-coronavirus-response-vax-million-didnt-help/5335280001/

   

  “Columbus’ identity crisis and its media,” ColumbusUnderground, July 23, 2021

  https://columbusunderground.com/opinion-columbus-identity-crisis-and-its-media/

   

  “The attack on critical race theory threatens our democracy,” Inside Higher Education,                 Aug. 2, 2021

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/08/02/attacks-critical-race-theory-are-            threat-american-democracy-opinion

   

  “Remembering Mike Rose in person and in print,” Inside Higher Education 8/18/21/UCLA                      GSEIS Tribute

  https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-remembering-mike-rose-     person-and-print

   

  “There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory: How a network of GOP politicians and             conservative activists are trying to create controversy where there is none,”

  Washington Monthly, Sept. 4, 2021; Reposted by the Columbus Free Press, Sept. 2021

  There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory

   

  “Interdisciplinarity is not about the humanities aping the sciences,” Times Higher Education,        Sept. 7. 2021

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/interdisciplinarity-not-about-humanities-        aping-sciences

   

  “Colleges can learn from sports figures about mental health,” Inside Higher Education,  Sept.        13, 2021

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/09/13/colleges-can-learn-sports-figures-         about-mental-health-opinion

   

  “The decline of a once vital neighborhood: Columbus’ University District,” Columbus Free           Press, Sept 14, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/decline-once-vital-neighborhood-       columbus%E2%80%99-university-district

   

  “For Ohio State, bigger is not better,” Columbus Free Press, Sept. 16, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/ohio-state-bigger-not-better

   

  “A post-retirement career as a public academic meets the moment’s need,” Times Higher   Education, Sept 18, 2021

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/post-retirement-career-public-academic-         meets-moments-need

   

  “The New White Fright and Flight and the Critical Race Theory Nondebate,” Academe Blog       Sept. 29, 2021

  https://academeblog.org/2021/09/30/the-new-white-fright-and-flight-and-the-critical-        race-theory-nondebate/

   

  “Ohio’s elected Republicans fail their public,” Columbus Free Press, Oct. 2, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/ohio%E2%80%99s-elected-republicans-fail-their-     public

   

  “Columbus’ University District: Students and the institutions that fail them.” Columbus Free        Press, Oct. 8, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/columbus%E2%80%99-university-district-    students-and-institutions-fail-them

   

  “Governor Mike DeWine’s Continuing Covid Failures: The Ohio Tragedy,” Columbus Free          Press, Oct. 13, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/governor-mike-dewine%E2%80%99s-continuing-     covid-failures-ohio-tragedy

   

  “Civics tests should be required to hold public office,” Inside Higher Education, Oct. 21, 2021

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/10/21/civics-test-should-be-required-hold-    public-office-            opinion

   

  “Notes on current politics in Columbus and Ohio: Thoughts in response to questions from my       editor,” Columbus Free Press, Oct. 21, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/notes-current-politics-columbus-and-ohio-     thoughts-response-questions-my-editor

   

  “America First: An Excavation of Trumpism and the Trump Agenda,” Columbus Free Press, Oct 24, 2021

  See https://columbusfreepress.com/article/america-first-excavation-trumpism-and-trump-   agenda

   

  “Ohio Education Promotes Racism and Restricting Equity, Again,” Columbus Free Press,                         Oct. 27, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/ohio-education-promotes-racism-and-restricts-          equity-again

   

  “History lessons can help disciplines to survive,” Times Higher Education, Oct. 30, 2021

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/history-lessons-can-help-disciplines-          survive

   

  “OSU isn’t having a crime crisis; it’s having a leadership crisis,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free   Press, Nov 2, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/ohio-state-isn%E2%80%99t-having-crime-crisis-       it%E2%80%99s-having-leadership-crisis-0

   

  “Response to Columbus Alive, ‘The list: Reasons that Columbus Underground opinion piece        is trash,’ by Andy Downing and Joel Oliphint, Columbus Alive, July 26: A visit to       journalism fantasy land,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Nov. 7, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/response-columbus-alive-%E2%80%9C-list-  reasons-columbus-underground-opinion-piece-trash%E2%80%9D-andy

   

  “‘Update’ to Ohio State isn’t having a crime crisis,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press,            Nov. 13, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-update-%E2%80%9Cohio-state-        isn%E2%80%99t-having-crime-crisis-it%E2%80%99s-having-leadership-        crisis%E2%80%9D

   

  “Ross Douthat wouldn’t know a new college from old,” Academe Blog, Nov 17, 2021

  https://academeblog.org/2021/11/17/ross-douthat-wouldnt-know-a-new-college-from-an-  old-one/

   

  “An Open Letter to the Ohio Democratic Party: Where are you and why have you lost touch with             D/democracy? Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Nov.17, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-open-letter-ohio-democratic-party-     where-are-you-and-why-have-you-lost-touch

   

  “Columbus City Government is Undemocratic and Disorganized: It’s 2021 and we need a            revolution in this city,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Nov. 20, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-city-government-    undemocratic-and-disorganized-it%E2%80%99s-2021-and-we-need

   

  “Young heroes: Columbus Free Press for Thanksgiving,” Columbus Free Press, Nov. 25, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/my-young-heroes

   

  “Gov. DeWine abandons science and the public,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Dec. 1,   2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/ohio-governor-dewine-abandons-science-and-           public

   

  “The Ohio State University promotes public health crises,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free            Press, Dec. 6, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-ohio-state-university-promotes-          public-health-crises-0

   

  “DeWine whines about critical race theory,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Dec. 11,          2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-dewine-whines-about-critical-race-     theory

   

  “Marketing the second biggest lie: The Faith & Freedom Caucus vs. American history &   Christianity,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Dec. 14, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-marketing-second-biggest-lie- faith-freedom-caucus-versus-american-history

   

  “The triumph of the new “fake news” in the legitimate press,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free      Press, Dec. 19, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-triumph-new-%E2%80%9Cfake-       news%E2%80%9D-legitimate-press

   

  “Columbus searches for its Downtown with historical, urbanist, and developers’ blinders,”

  Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Dec. 22, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-searches-its-downtown-     historical-urbanist-and-developers%E2%80%99-blinders

   

  “How conservative opinion writers fail their readers,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press,         Dec. 25, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-how-conservative-opinion-writers-     fail-their-readers

   

  “My New Year’s wish list: Media misconceptions and the ten minute historical      memory,”        Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Dec. 29, 2021

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-my-new-year%E2%80%99s-  wish-list

   

  “Gov. DeWine abandons science and the public,” Washington Monthly, Dec. 31, 2021

  https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/12/31/mike-dewine-seemed-like-one-of-the-few-      republicans-serious-about-fighting-covid-hes-not/

   

  “Know Nothings: A scholar and author examines the banning of books, past and present,”

  Publishers Weekly, Jan. 3, 2022//Harvey J. Graff Examines the History of Book    Banning, Dec. 31, 2021 online

  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-         blogs/soapbox/article/88195-harvey-j-graff-examines-the-history-of-book-banning.html

   

  “Texas and Florida secede from reality; Ohio imitates,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press,             https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-texas-and-florida-secede-reality-        ohio-imitates   Jan. 4, 2022

   

  “Columbus, Ohio, searches to be a city: The myth of the Columbus Way,” Busting Myths,            Columbus Free Press, Jan. 9, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-ohio-searches-be-city-         myth-columbus-way

   

  “The Banality of University Slogans. Whether its ad campaigns for football season, gauzy             reports from the provost, or rhetoric from the school’s president, higher education    abounds with empty rhetoric,” Washington Monthly, Jan. 10, 2022

  The Banality of University Slogans

   

  “Essay critical of Louis Menand’s book review is disappointing,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan.         12, 2022

  https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/essay-critical-of-louis-menands-book-review-is-       disappointing?cid2=gen_login_refresh

   

  “The dilemmas of disciplines going public,” Inside Higher Education, Jan. 13, 2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/01/13/academic-disciplines-changing-roles-   public-domain-opinion

   

  “Can we resurrect our ‘founding’ faith in the American ‘People’?” Busting Myths,            Columbus Free Press, Jan. 15, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-can-we-resurrect-our-  %E2%80%9Cfounding%E2%80%9D-faith-american-%E2%80%9Cpeople%E2%80%9D

   

  “Slogans are no substitute for concrete university policies and programmes,” Times Higher            Education, Jan. 17, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/slogans-are-no-substitute-concrete-    university-policies-and-programmes

   

  My literacy scholarship discussed in Steven Mintz, “Is Literacy Declining: If it is, it’s because      we academics aren’t doing our job,” Higher Ed Gamma, Inside Higher Education, Jan.     18, 2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/literacy-declining

   

  “Sloganeering and the Limits of Leadership,” Academe Blog, Jan. 19, 2022

  Sloganeering and the Limits of Leadership

   

  “The Columbus Dispatch: The decline of a metropolitan daily newspaper,” Busting Myths,           Columbus Free Press, Jan. 20, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-dispatch-decline-    metropolitan-daily-newspaper

   

  “The Misrepresentation and Marketing of ‘Financial Literacy’: The Fallacies and Dangers of         FL4ALL,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Jan. 23, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-misrepresentation-and-marketing-      %E2%80%9Cfinancial-literacy%E2%80%9D-fallacies-and-dangers

   

  “Intel and the Ohio Way: Secrecy, deals, public neglect, myth making, and re-election       campaigning,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Jan. 27, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-intel-and-ohio-way-secrecy-deals-      public-neglect-myth-making-and-re-election

   

  “Book ban in Washington County is an example of the ‘new illiteracy,’” with Ashley Perez,                      Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 28, 2022

  https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/01/28/ashley-hope-prez-harvey-j/

   

  “The disappearance of journalistic standards in opinion essays as they replace the news,”

  Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Jan. 30, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-disappearance-journalistic-      standards-opinion-essays-replace-news

   

  “The other immigrants and diverse American dreams,” with Ameer Abdul, Busting Myths,           Columbus Free Press, Feb. 3, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/harvey-j-graff-ameer-abdul-busting-myths-    columbus-free-press-other-immigr

   

  “The media mangle the Big Lie and the nondebate over critical race theory,” Busting Myths,       Columbus Free Press, Feb. 7, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/media-mangle-second-big-lie-nondebate-over-          critical-race-theory

   

  “Academic collegiality is a contradictory self-serving myth,” Times Higher Education, Feb. 10.    2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/academic-collegiality-contradictory-self-       serving-myth

   

  “I wrote ‘Out of Darkness’ for my high school students. Now high schools are removing it,”         by Ashley Hope Perez with. Harvey J. Graff, Dallas Morning News, Feb. 11, 2022

  https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/02/11/i-wrote-out-of-darkness-     for-my-high-school-students-now-high-schools-are-removing-it/

   

  “The U.S. and Canada: Confronting the past in the present,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free        Press, Feb. 14, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-us-and-canada-confronting-past-p      resent

   

  “A call to colleagues: Speak out and support children, teachers, librarians, and free            speech—and the present and future of your own institutions, too,”

  American Historical Association Member Forum, Feb. 16, 2022

   

  “How many ‘projects’ does it take to obstruct a truly American history?”  Busting Myths,             Columbus Free Press, Feb. 16, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-how-many-      %E2%80%9Cprojects%E2%80%9D-does-it-take-obstruct-truly-american-history

   

  “An Open Letter to the Ohio unDemocratic Party,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press,             Feb. 20, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-open-letter-ohio-undemocratic-party

   

  “Shouldn’t Ivy League graduates know better than to remake American history? Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Feb. 24, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-shouldn%E2%80%99t-ivy-league-     graduates-know-better-remake-american-history-0

   

  “Battle of the books: A professor examines the 1619, 1620, 1776, and 1836 projects,”       Publishers Weekly, Feb. 28, 2022/Online “Battle of the Books: When Historical        Reassessments Collide: A professor examines the 1619, 1620, 1776, and 1836             projects, Feb. 25, 2022

  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-         blogs/soapbox/article/88602-battle-of-the-books-when-historical-reassessments-            collide.html

   

  “Ohio State falters again, a continuing higher education tragedy,” Busting Myths, Columbus        Free Press, Feb. 28, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-ohio-state-falters-again-continuing-    higher-education-tragedy-0

   

  “Essays favoring inquiry over truth-seeking were lacking,” Chronicle of Higher Education,

  Feb. 28, 2022

  https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/essays-favoring-inquiry-over-truth-seeking-           were-lacking

   

  “The State of Ohio assaults its own children: The war on those least able to defend            themselves,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Mar. 6, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/state-ohio-assaults-its-children-war-those-least-         able-defend-themselves

   

  “Collegiality needs a reboot,” Times Higher Education, Mar. 7, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/collegiality-needs-reboot

   

  “Columbus’ major ‘news media’ against democratic politics and the public,” Busting Myths,         Columbus Free Press, Mar. 10, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus%E2%80%99-major-           news-media-against-democratic-politics-and-public

   

  “Book banning isn’t about content; it’s a fight for supremacy in culture wars,”

  by Ashley Hope Pérez and Harvey J. Graff, The Herald Times (Bloomington,        Indiana), Mar. 10, 2022

  https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/03/10/book-bans-    deprive-young-people-chance-become-thoughtful-readers/9341209002/

   

  “Ohio State versus ‘campus safety,’” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Mar. 13, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-ohio-state-university-versus-   %E2%80%9Ccampus-safety%E2%80%9D

   

  “WOSU, the nation’s worst NPR affiliate? The challenge of criticizing a self-parody of a ‘news   and information’ station,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Mar. 20, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-wosu-nation%E2%80%99s-worst-     npr-affiliate-challenge-criticizing-self-parody-%E2%80%9Cnews-and

   

  “Should colleges make anti-racism part of their mission?” Chronicle of Higher Education,             Mar. 22, 2022

  https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/objections-to-umass-bostons-reconsideration-of-   its-mission-statement-are-dishonest

   

  “A citizen vs. Postmaster Louis DeJoy and his crippling of the U.S. Postal service,” Busting         Myths, Columbus Free Press, Mar. 24, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-citizen-vs-louis-dejoy-and-his-            crippling-us-postal-service

   

  “Teaching outside the box: A retired professor’s continuing education,” Inside Higher       Education, Mar. 25, 2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/03/25/retired-professor-teaches-and-learns-  beyond-classroom-opinion

   

  “The Ohio Attorney General vs. Science, Ethics, and Law,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free          Press, Mar. 27, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-ohio-attorney-general-vs-science-       ethics-and-law

   

  “Ignore the books: there is no single Big Problem with higher education,” Times Higher    Education, Apr. 2, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/ignore-books-there-no-single-big-problem-     higher-education

   

  “Is Mike DeWine actually a governor?” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, April 3, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-%E2%80%93-big-question-month-    our-supposed-primary-elections-mike-dewine-actually

   

  “Is Columbus really a City?” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Apr.7, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-really-city

   

  “The right-wing truck convoys arrive in Ohio: The unconstitutionality and inhumanity of Book     Banners,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Apr. 14, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/right-wing-truck-convoys-arrive-ohio-            unconstitutionality-and-inhumanity-book-banners

   

  “Columbus isn’t Cowtown or Silicon Valley Heartland; It is the lawless wild-wild-Midwest,””     Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Apr. 20, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-isn%E2%80%99t-  cowtown-or-silicon-valley-heartland-it%E2%80%99s-lawless-wild-wild

   

  “Book Banning Past and Present and the Rights of Young Readers,” Academe Blog,

  Apr. 22, 2022

  https://academeblog.org/2022/04/22/book-banning-past-and-present-and-the-rights-of-      young-readers/

   

  “How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic           neighborhood,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Part One, Apr. 26, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/how-columbus-ohio-state-university-and-major-        developers-destroyed-historic-neighborhood

   

  “Dark money fuels Kansas and Missouri school book banners. Don’t let the minority rule,”           Kansas City Star. Apr. 28, 2022

  https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest- commentary/article260788532.html

   

  “How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic           neighborhood,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Part Two, Apr. 29, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/how-columbus-ohio-state-university-and-major-        developers-destroyed-historic-neighborhood-0

   

  “Book banning past and present and the real lives of the young.” Against the Current, May-June,             218 (May-June, 2022), 6-7

  Book Banning Past and Present

   

  “How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic           neighborhood—A continuing saga,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, May 2, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/how-columbus-ohio-state-university-and-major-        developers-destroyed-historic-neighborhood%E2%80%94

   

  “Myths Shape the Continuing ‘Crisis of the Humanities’,” Inside Higher Education, May 6,          2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/05/06/myths-underlie-humanities-crisis-         discourse-opinion

   

  “America First: An Excavation of Trumpism and the Trump Agenda,” reprinted with new             introduction, Columbus Free Press, Oct 24, 2021; May 7, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/america-first-excavation-trumpism-and-trump-          agenda

   

  “My short life as a ‘civic leader’ in the directionless maze called the City of Columbus, Part          One,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, May 11, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/my-short-life-%E2%80%9Ccivic-      leader%E2%80%9D-directionless-maze-called-city-columbus-part-one

   

  “My short life as a ‘civic leader’ in the directionless maze called the City of Columbus, Part          Two,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press. May 14, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/my-short-life-%E2%80%9Ccivic-      leader%E2%80%9D-directionless-maze-called-city-columbus-part-two

   

  “Universities are not giving students the classes or support they need,” Times Higher         Education, May 17, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/universities-are-not-giving-students-classes-  or-support-they-need

   

  “Ohio is 2022’s most successful voting suppression campaign: Anti-democracy in action,”

  Columbus Free Press, May 24, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/ohio-2022%E2%80%99s-most-successful-voter-       suppression-campaign-anti-democracy-action

   

  “Peer reviewing is becoming more cavalier, self-serving and ignorant,” Times Higher Education,  June 2, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/peer-reviewing-becoming-more-cavalier-        self-serving-and-ignorant

   

  “When ‘Heterodoxy’ is Orthodoxy,” Inside Higher Education, June 3, 2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/03/when-heterodoxy-orthodoxy-letter

   

  “Franklinton, 1797-2022 and Columbus’ Contradictions, Part 1,” Columbus Free Press,

  June 5, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/franklintown-1797-2022-and-            columbus%E2%80%99-contradictions

   

  “Franklinton, 1797-2022 and Columbus’ Contradictions, Part 2,” Columbus Free Press, June 9,    2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/franklintown-1797-2022-and-            columbus%E2%80%99-contradictions-part-2

   

  “How the Harvard Business School and the Columbus Way attempt to enrich each other:

  Lessons in the promiscuous relationships between Columbus’ private interests and an elite university’s profiteering,” with Bob Eckhart, Busting Myths, Columbus Free     Press, June 12, 2022

  https://www.google.com/search?q=popular+Google+Doodle+games&oi=ddle&ct=15349            9104&hl=en&source=doodle-            ntp&ved=0ahUKEwjcg_mdr5DpAhUEEqwKHYXNDfkQPQgB

   

  “An open letter to Kenny McDonald, new head of the “Columbus Partnership,” Busting Myths,   Columbus Free Press, June 16, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-open-letter-kenny-mcdonald-new-     head-%E2%80%9Ccolumbus-partnership%E2%80%9D

   

  “The Book Business Ecosystem Is Under Attack,” Publishers Weekly online, June 17, 2022/An    Ecosystem Under Attack, Publishers Weekly, June 20, 22

  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-         blogs/soapbox/article/89625-the-book-business-ecosystem-is-under-attack.html

   

  “The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents, Part One,” Busting Myths,              Columbus Free Press, June 21, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-%E2%80%93-columbus-free-press-   columbus-way-versus-rights-columbus-residents

   

  “Academics’ publishing options are an ever wilder west. Beware!” Times Higher Education,         June 24, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/academics-publishing-options-are-ever-          wilder-west-beware

   

  “The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents, Part Two,” Busting Myths,             Columbus Free Press. June 24, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-way-versus-rights-  columbus-residents

   

  “The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents, Part Three,” Busting Myths,            Columbus Free Press, June 27, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-way-versus-rights-  columbus-residents-0

   

  “The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents, Part Four,” Busting Myths,             Columbus Free Press, June 30, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-way-versus-rights-  columbus-residents-1

   

  “The Fallacies of “the Shadow Curriculum,” Academe Blog, July 1, 2022

  The Fallacies of the “Shadow Curriculum”

   

  “Remaking the City of Columbus for the 21^st or is it the 20^th century? Busting Myths,       Columbus Free Press, July 5, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-remaking-city-columbus-21st-or-it-    20th-century

   

  Commentary on my history of children and youth in the US:

  Steven Mintz, “How to Ease the Path to Adulthood,” Higher Ed Gamma, Inside Higher   Education, July 5, 2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/how-ease-path-adulthood-0

   

  “My ongoing struggles for responsibility from the City of Columbus,” Busting Myths,       Columbus Free Press, July 12, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-my-ongoing-struggles-            responsibility-city-columbus

   

  “Is Columbus the corruption capital of a corrupt state? Mismanagement, no management, and corruption in the 2020s,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, July 17, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-columbus-corruption-capital-  corrupt-state-mismanagement-no-management-and

   

  “The rights to read and write and to organize: Local roots of democracy and our historical            moment,” Busting Myth, Columbus Free Press, July 24, 2024; Scholars Strategy Network

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-%E2%80%93-rights-read-and-           write-and-organize-local-roots-democracy-and-our-historical

   

  “The best scholarship is political but with no ideological stamp,” Times Higher Education, July     26, 2022

  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/best-scholarship-political-no-ideological-       stamp

   

  Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies Social Science         Matters    #SocSciMatters

  https://www.palgrave.com/gp/blogs/social-sciences/graff

   

  “Mr. Mayor and City Council: May I introduce you to the city of Columbus? Beyond the             Short   North and the Scioto River Bank, there is a diverse complicated city,” Busting Myths,            Columbus Free Press, July 31, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-%E2%80%93-mr-mayor-and-city-     council-may-i-introduce-you-city-columbus-beyond-short

   

  “How Young People Have Changed,” Inside Higher Education, Aug. 4, 2022

  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/04/growing-was-always-hard-its-getting- harder-letter

   

  Scholars Strategy Network (SSN)

  https://scholars.org/scholar/harvey-graff

   

  “Recreating universities for the 21^st century without repeating the errors and myths of                   the 20^th century? Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Aug. 7, 2022

  https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-recreating-universities-21st-    century-without-repeating-errors-and-myths-20th

   

  “Still searching for Downtown: ‘Ideas considered for Downtown plan,’” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Aug. 14, 2022

              https://columbusfreepress.com/article/busting-myths-still-searching-downtown-           %E2%80%9Cideas-considered-downtown-plan%E2%80%9D        

  “Frederic Bertley, Salesperson, Meet Science and English Expression,” Busting Myths,     Columbus Free Press, Aug. 17, 2022

              https://columbusfreepress.com/article/frederic-bertley-salesperson-meet-science-          and-english-expression

  “Editors have become so wayward that academic authors need a bill of rights,” Times Higher      Education, Aug. 18, 2022

              https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/editors-have-become-so-wayward-     academic-authors-need-bill-rights

   

  “Relocating literacy in higher education,” Academe Blog, Aug. 18, 2022

  Relocating Literacy in Higher Education

   

  “You can’t sue City Hall, can you? But we should educate the public and use the ballot          box: That’s the American Way, not the Columbus Way,” Busting Myths, Columbus     Free Press, Aug. 21, 2022

   

  “Columbus continues as franchise and fast-food chain leader: Columbus Classical     Academies,” Busting Myths. Columbus Free Press, August   2022

  “Lessons from the 1960s: Paths to rediscovering universities,” Against the Current.

  Advance review of Searching for Literacy

  Steven Mintz, “Literacy is Power,” Higher Ed Gamma, Inside Higher Education,

   

   “On teaching and learning/Learning in teaching,” Inside Higher Education

  “The United States’ most disorganized university? Ohio State’s ‘5½ D’s’: Disorganization,     dysfunction, disengagement, depression, dishonest, and undisciplined,” Busting        Myths, Columbus Free Press  2 parts

   

  *Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies

              OpEd,” Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press

   

  “Why I remain in Columbus despite Columbus. . .,”. Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press

   

   “We live in unprecedented times, but not for the reasons that the media or

  `           politicians tell us,”

   

  “Basic and highly developed literacy and literacies are lost in higher education: To the           great loss of students and scholars,” Times Higher Education

   

   “The wild worlds of university presses publishing today: fiction and fact,” Publishers            Weekly

   

  *Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies

              OpEd

   

  *Professors: Be on your guard with the media!

   

   

  Scholarly articles

   

  “The new literacy studies and the resurgent literacy myth,” Literacy in Composition          Studies, 9, 1 (2022), 47-53

  https://licsjournal.org/index.php/LiCS/article/view/1393

   

  “The nondebate about critical race theory and our American moment: The interaction of past,       present, and alternative futures,” special issue on Memory Laws or Gag Laws?     Disinformation Meets Academic Freedom, Journal of Academic Freedom, Vol. 13, Fall, 2022

   

  “My journeys to public and applied history and humanities: Lessons for the present and       the future from time, space, and need,”

  “The persistent ‘reading myth’ and the ‘crisis of the humanities,’” CCC/College          Composition and Communication, early 2023 

   

  “The inseparability of ‘historical myths’ and ‘permanent crises’ in the humanities,”

   

  “Literacy Studies and Composition through the work of Harvey J. Graff, Tribute Session,   Conference on College Composition and Communication  2017 with Response by         Graff,”

   

  “Disconnecting Gown and Town: Campus Partners for Urban  Community Development,   Ohio State University,”   

   

   

  Written court testimony

  Testimony from Harvey J. Graff, Professor Emeritus of English and History, and Ohio      Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies, The Ohio State University

  USC 1746 Missouri

   

  Letters to the Editor published

  Columbus Dispatch

  Ohio Republicans, Mar. 9, 2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/03/09/letters-republicans-misrepresent-zoo-      leadership-fails/4626326001/

   

  Voter ID laws, April 16, 2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/04/16/letters-national-crime-victims-rights-       week-time-advocate-victims/7235464002/

   

  Ohio policy failures, May 14, 2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/05/14/letters-vaccine-lottery-dewine-    portman-voter-fraud-jim-jordan-liz-cheney-anthony-gonzalez/5071315001/

   

  Troy Balderson, May 22, 2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/05/22/letters-gop-should-do-right-thing-            regarding-jan-6/5192180001/

   

  Vaxx-A-Million, July 12, 2021

  https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/07/12/letters/7906684002/

   

  The Lantern

  VAX-A-NICKEL Aug. 18,  2021

  https://www.thelantern.com/2021/08/letter-to-the-editor-ohio-states-vax-a-nickel-giveaway/

   

  Cleveland Plain Dealer

  Dave Yost , April 1, 2021

  https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2021/04/is-there-a-point-to-dave-yosts-recent-spurt-of-     lawsuits.html

   

  Ohio covid response, Apr. 19, 2021

  https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2021/04/gov-mike-dewine-needs-to-toughen-ohios-covid-            response-explain-benchmark.html

   

  Republicans imitate other states, May 16, 2021

  https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2021/05/gop-lawmakers-spin-their-wheels-on-ideologically-         inspired-laws-hurting-ohio.html

   

  State legislators and critical race theory, June 27, 2021

  https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2021/06/assault-on-critical-race-theory-is-an-attack-on-    democracy-itself.html

   

  Why aren’t Ohio’s GOP officials taking action to address AAPI hate ? Cleveland Plain Dealer                      Aug. 25, 2021

  https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2021/08/why-arent-ohios-gop-officials-taking-action-to-   address-aapi-hate.html

   

  Ohio State Republicans continue to imitate increasingly recklessly, Nov 17, 2021

  https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2021/11/ohio-should-stop-importing-legislation-from-other-         states.html

   

  Cincinnati Enquirer

  Dave Yost v. American history, May 30, 2021

  https://www.cincinnati.com › story › opinion › 2021/05/30

   

  Toledo Blade

  Where is the Ohio Democratic Party? Aug. 29, 2021

  https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2021/08/29/letters-to-the-editor-

   

  New York Times

  Covid policy making , May 18, 2021

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/opinion/letters/covid-cdc-        masks.html?searchResultPosition=1

   

  Washington Post

  The CDC stumbles again         Jan. 2, 2022

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/the-new-pandemic-worries-   varying-guidance-and-finding-a-test/2022/01/02/de292eec-68d1-11ec-9390-     eae241f4c8b1_story.html

   

  Lectures and Interviews

  Fiction and Fact About Critical Race Theory

  Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University, Sept. 9, 2021

  https://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/event/fiction-and-fact-about-critical-race-theory

   

  Critical Race Theory Explained, June 7, 2021

  The Sound of Ideas, WCPN, NPR Cleveland

  https://www.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-ideas/critical-race-theory-is-causing-a-stir-yet many-dont-grasp-its-true-meaning

   

  The Rightwing NonDebate About Critical Race Theory

  The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Sept. 13, 2021

  MNHN.org, Pacifica Network

  https://www.wnhnfm.org/category/attitude-3/

  https://www/wnhnfm.org/uploads/1/3/2/1/132126398/attitudearniearnesen 20210914.mp3

   

  The Past and the Future of Interdisciplinarity: Something Old, Something News, Something Borrow, Something….

  Zayed University, UAE, Jan. 4, 2022

   

  Interview on Book Banning

  KJZZ   The Show  Phoenix, AZ (recorded Feb. 3, 2022)

  https://kjzz.org/content/1762526/arizona-lawmakers are-trying-restrict-certain-books-schools-isnt-first-time

   

  Book Bannings in America aren’t new but … Mary. 7, 2022

  The Sound of Ideas   WCPN, NPR  Cleveland

  https://www.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-ideas/book-bannings-in -america-arent-new-but-they-are-getting-renewed-attention

   

  New Books Network (NBN) podcast, From The Literacy Myth to Searching for Literacy

  August 5/9, 2022

  https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-literacy-myth