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How did the Founders try to translate the ideals of the Revolution into a form and system of government that would empower, yet restrain the Executive? How have the interpretations […]

From a young age Abraham Lincoln was a voracious reader, especially of the writings of William Shakespeare. He was known to carry a worn-out pocket-sized copy of Macbeth while law circuit riding and later campaigning. Why was Lincoln so interested in Macbeth, a play about tyranny? Join us as we consider Shakespeare passages, writings of […]

This seminar will focus on America's westward expansion and its "Manifest Destiny" to expand from sea to shining sea. We will consider the purposes for westward expansion, Jackson's Indian Removal Policy, and westward expansion's impact on slavery. This program will be conducted as a discussion, utilizing primary source documents as the only readings, and with […]

Women’s political, social, and economic status has undergone several transformations in American history. This seminar will explore readings and documents in those stages: Women of Reform and Revolution, Women in […]

Women’s political, social, and economic status has undergone several transformations in American history. This seminar will explore readings and documents in those stages: Women of Reform and Revolution, Women in the Progressive Era and Voting Booths and Is Suffrage Enough – the Lasting Impact. This program will be conducted as a discussion, utilizing primary source […]

This seminar offers an overview of the principles of the American Founding and the documents that embody them, especially the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. These principles will be […]

Learn about the evolution of Congress in this documents-based Seminar. The documents will explore the major issues and concerns over congressional representation at the Constitutional Convention, the powers of Congress, the balance of those powers between the States and federal government and will conclude with Congress and the modern administrative state. This program will be […]

This seminar examines how the political and institutional order forged by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal shaped American governance across the twentieth century. FDR’s expansion of federal power, the rise of the administrative state, and the construction of a durable Democratic coalition, the seminar traces the arc of New Deal liberalism through Lyndon B. Johnson's […]

Although the farm sector had struggled in the 1920s, the United States had enjoyed eight years of unprecedented prosperity under as the 1928 presidential race drew to a close. Seven […]