Our seminar-style classes encourage you to engage directly with primary source documents, rather than simply listening to lectures. Our faculty treat you as colleagues, respecting your work as teachers, and helping you grow as scholars. Our goal is to bring social studies teachers into a conversation about the American experiment in self-government. Our hope is that America’s students will be brought into this conversation as well.
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Speaking of Professor Scott Yenor, Liz Schley said: “He guided us to do our own thinking. He’d ask us, ‘Why do you think what you’ve just said—can you point to a particular section of the document, or to other readings you’ve done?’” As teachers went back to the text to look for evidence, and as they listened to others who pointed to different evidence, they often revised their thinking.
Read more of Liz's storyUpcoming TAH Programs
One-Day Seminar: Executive Power and the Early Republic hosted by Henry County Schools (McDonough, GA)
How did Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson variously understand the nature and limits of executive power under the Constitution? Registration: 8:30 am Access... Read more »
One Day Seminar: The American Founding, hosted by Lodi Unified School District (Lodi, CA)
This seminar will examine the principles of the American Revolution and how they came to define the structure of the American Constitution for the Founding... Read more »
AHG 643 O7A: Executive Power and the Constitution (ONLINE COURSE)
This course will examine the major questions and controversies about executive power under the Constitution. Special attention will be given to emergencies and the rule... Read more »
