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A Word from the Chair
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We are glad you are a part of our growing program. This year we are offering thirty classes and have moved to six sessions, to make sure we can comfortably house everyone. Our course offerings have new variety. You may take not only our high-quality core classes in historical eras and essential primary texts, but also seminars on Adams and Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson, FDR and Reagan, Tocqueville, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and Ralph Ellison, just to mention a few. It is fair to say that this unique program even in its youth is already revitalizing the study and teaching of American history and government across the country. I look forward to seeing you this summer. |
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Table of Contents
Winter 2009 edition
Winter 2009 edition
- Introducing the New Associate Director
Christian Pascarella has joined the staff at the Ashbrook Center as Associate Director for the Master of American History and Government program. He will work with school districts across the country to launch professional development programs for American history teachers funded by the federal government through Teaching American History (TAH) grants. Read More - New Faculty Member Brings Insight into Congress
Professor Randall Strahan of Emory University will join Professor Andrew Busch of Claremont McKenna College to teach the elective, "The Congress" during Session Five. Strahan, who teaches political science at Emory, examines legislative history not only with a social scientists tools of data analysis but also an interest in the activity of statesmen, an approach he attributes to Ph.D. training under scholars such as Charles Jones and James Ceaser at the University of Virginia. Read More - Presidential and Congressional Academies Invite Applicants
The Presidential and Congressional Academies in American History and Civics will be offered again this summer to outstanding high school teachers and students, selected to represent their states in each event. The programs take participants through an intensive study of three essential primary documents—the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and King's "I Have a Dream" speech—and the crucial ideas these documents expressed at pivotal moments in American history. Read More - New Graduates Set High Standard
The MAHG program now counts four graduates, with three students—Eric Iverson, Luke Loboda, and Heather Merckens—having been awarded degrees in December. Their stories, showing dedicated pursuit of deep interests, point up the varied research options in the MAHG program. Read More - New Faculty Publications
Faculty members Peter Myers, Colleen Sheehan, and Gregory Schneider have recently published books on Frederick Douglass, James Madison, and the conservative movement respectively. Read More
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