This seminar will consider Jackson’s ascendancy to President, its historical context as well as many of his controversial policies such as the Bank War, Nullification Crisis and the Indian Removal Act. This program will be conducted as a Socratic discussion, utilizing primary source documents as the only readings, and with the Discussion Leader facilitating the […]
Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. both argued that the proper foundation for civic education is the belief that America has a moral essence derived from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that America’s history and purpose—its past, present, and future—is the story of our struggle to live up to those principles. […]
Native Americans occupy an anomalous position in the United States. Federally recognized tribes each are separate sovereigns within the federal system. States hold no authority over them except what Congress may give them. Their enrolled members are dual citizens – of the United States and of their tribal nation. By virtue of the Constitution and […]
In creating what James Madison referred to as a “compound republic,” the framers of the U.S. Constitution established a political system that was bound to generate collisions between state and […]
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 […]
Our conversation will ponder the political developments in North America and the British empire surrounding the arguments for and against independence. This will include the Declaration of Independence, how the Revolutionary War as a military, social, and cultural event contributed to the development of the American nation and state, and the what the new country […]
Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. both argued that the proper foundation for civic education is the belief that America has a moral essence derived from the principles of […]
Explore how early 20th-century Progressives challenged the ideals of the Declaration. This webinar examines debates over imperialism, the role of the government, and eugenics, revealing how these controversies reshaped ideas […]
Bringing together three of the nation’s sharpest wits – this seminar will trace how political humor evolved from colonial pamphlets and aphorisms to Gilded Age satire and early twentieth-century newspaper columns. Each man, in his own era, skewered power, and translated complex political debates into plainspoken insight that ordinary Americans could understand – and laugh […]
Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. both argued that the proper foundation for civic education is the belief that America has a moral essence derived from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that America’s history and purpose—its past, present, and future—is the story of our struggle to live up to those principles. […]
