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Jepson School: Pauline Maier, “Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: The Book, the Story, and Why We Should Care”, 4:30 pm, Jepson Hall, Univ. of Richmond
Professor Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT
on 10 February, 2012
Gordon Wood, What Made the Founders Different: Rhodes College, on 16 February, 2012 19:00
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AU: Philip B. Lyons on "Statesmanship in Reconstruction: What the Moderate Republicans Were For", on 17 February, 2012
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Yale: Gordon Schochet, English-Speaking Rights: The AngloAmerican Sources of Modern Rights, All talks held in Linsly-Chittenden Hall
63 High Street · Room 101 4:30P
For more information, visit YCRI online at www.yale.edu/ycri on 28 February, 2012
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Tocqueville on the Sources of Greatness in Democratic Times: Villanova, Aurelian Craiutu
4:00PM, Bartley 1011, Villanova University on 22 March, 2012 16:00
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Yale: Gordon Wood, Representation in the American Revolution, All talks held in Linsly-Chittenden Hall
63 High Street · Room 101 4:30P
For more information, visit YCRI online at www.yale.edu/ycri on 27 March, 2012
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American University: Wilfred McClay on "Tocqueville's Moment and Ours", Wilfred M. McClay is SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga since 1999. He is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, and Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum, and has been, since 2002, a member of the National Council for the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (North Carolina, 1994), which won the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history;The Student’s Guide to U.S. History (ISI Books, 2001), and Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America (Johns Hopkins, 2003) and Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past (Eerdmans, 2006). on 27 March, 2012
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James Schall, Another Sort of Learning: How to Get an Education Even While in College: Villanova, on 29 March, 2012
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American University Conference: "Whither America?", PTI will host a one-day conference : "Whither American Education?" with speakers such as John Agresto, former President of St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM and Louis Menand, Pulitizer prize winning author of The Metaphysical Club. on 30 March, 2012
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American University: Clifford Orwin on "Compassion and the Promise of Democracy", on 09 April, 2012
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