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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
The 5th edition of the Portable Library of Liberty data DVD will be ready for distribution in February 2010. It contains 1,002 full text titles in EBook PDF format, 36 hours of MP3 interviews with classical liberal political philosophers and economists (The Intellectual Portrait Series) and lectures on the thought of Friedrich Hayek (The Legacy of Friedrich Hayek), and a version of our collection of Quotations about Liberty and Power which is designed to run on a data DVD.
This edition of the PLL is not only the 5th edition since the website’s launch in March 2004 but also our 50th Anniversary Edition as Liberty Fund was founded in 1960.
You can request a complimentary copy but please include your snail mail (i.e. postal) address with your request so we can ship it to you, as well as your preferred browser (either Firefox/Safari or IE8). If you have trouble viewing the PLL DVD using IE see this page for help.
Tags: Austrian School, civic education, Classical liberalism, Friedrich Hayek, Liberty Fund, The Road to Serfdom
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
JMC Fellow, Shanaysha Sauls has been appointed to the Baltimore School Board.
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, American University, civic education, Duke University, Jack Miller Center Fellow, Shanaysha Sauls, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
It is by now a cliché to note how much better twenty-first-century people live than even the kings of three centuries back.
Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free trade, Freedom of speech, Glorious Revolution, Industrial Revolution, private property, Western culture
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Patrick Peel (Johns Hopkins University) will receive the Edward S. Corwin Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. His dissertation is entitled “Building Judicial Capacity in the Early American State: Legal Populism, County Courts, and Credit, 1645-1860.”
The Corwin Award is given by the American Political Science Association .
Patrick attended the Jack [...]
Tags: American Political Science Association, Johns Hopkins University, Ohio University, Patrick Peel, Thesis or dissertation
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Philanthropic giving to American education is likely to rebound to pre-recession levels, according to a survey that forecasts fundraising results for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
The Jack Miller Center will convene our second Summer Institute, July 26 – August 7, in Chicago, Il.
Tags: civic education, Education, Higher Education, Jack Miller Center, Political Science, Summer Institute
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Perhaps the most convenient source for exploring important documents from American History is the AMDOCS page of the “World Wide Web Virtual Library”
Tags: AMDOCS, civic education, History, History of the United States, Politics, United States
Posted in American Founding, Donor News, Primary Documents, Uncategorized, What's Hot | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The American Political Science Association has recognized a new related group dedicated to American Political Thought.
Tags: Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Kleinerman, civic education, Duke University, Jack Miller Center, James Ceaser, Michigan State University, Political philosophy, Political Science, Randall Hendrickson, Steven Kautz, Thomas Pangle, Washington D.C
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
The Jack Miller Center’s Mike Deshaies, vice president for communications and development, sits down with Prof. James Ceaser of the University of Virginia to discuss his Program in Constitutionalism and Democracy.
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