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Elizabeth Stice

Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Honors Program. She is the author of Empire Between the Lines: Imperial Culture in British and French Trench Newspapers of the Great War (2023). In her spare time, she enjoys ultimate frisbee and putting together a review, Orange Blossom Ordinary.

Articles by Elizabeth Stice

A Second Streak: A Lightning Bottling Facility?

We knew last year’s streak was something special, and now we know it may have been the start of something.

AI is Not Like a Calculator, and Other Conversations Worth Having

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.
July 29, 2025

Books and Blessings: The Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life

We do not need more thought leaders, but more thoughtful human beings.
July 3, 2025

Taking a Turn Taking it on the Chin

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love
April 26, 2025

Hannibal is at the Gates: Gambling in America

With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.
January 21, 2025

The Student’s Dilemma

The promise of AI is utopian and seems futuristic, but its effects on the educational landscape will make students nostalgic for the pre-ChatGPT days of yore.

What is a Nation, Anyway?

Proper forgetting depends on the idea of a nation itself. For Renan, “a nation is a soul, a spiritual principle” built on two things, the past and the present.
November 20, 2024

Boom Towns Go Bust

Civil society relies on common spaces where people of all backgrounds can meet, but states and cities have been pursuing semi-privatization of public spaces.

The Streak: A Legendary Semester

Our participation streak brought forward more diversity of opinion and expression in the classroom while forming the students into a team with a shared objective.

Chicago Style Citation: False Futures and Utopias

The Chicago Manual of Style is not to blame for any of these trends. The editors’ decision does not shape as much as reflect our culture.
July 15, 2024

The Liberal Arts: Take it or Leave it

Let’s point to the wiser and the well off and ask people if they want what those people have–often they do. Many times, those people have a love for the…

Dante’s Virgil as a Guide for College Professors: Insights from Inferno

Students sometimes come to us in crisis, but always they come from a world filled with challenges and are with us only for a season. We could do far worse…