Join our scholars on a Saturday morning for a moderated conversation about American foreign policy.

Today’s question: Do American ideals require American intervention abroad?

Teaching American History’s Saturday webinar series provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we’ve chosen to highlight controversial topics from America’s past. These webinars are open to social studies, history, government, civics and humanities educators.

Readings:

–George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

–John Quincy Adams, An Address . . . Celebrating the Declaration of Independence, 1821

–Albert Beveridge, In Support of an American Empire, 1900

–Lyndon Johnson, Peace Without Conquest, 1965 

–Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The Four Freedoms,”1941