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Reading America at 250: Learning Civics through Literature
Join the Jack Miller Center for a webinar titled “Reading America at 250: Learning Civics through Literature” on Thursday, August 14 at 3 pm ET.
America’s 250th birthday next year gives Americans the opportunity to appreciate our country’s unique character in many creative ways. In our next webinar, JMC Scholar Stuart Warner (Roosevelt University) and JMC’s own Thomas Kelly will ask, “Why should we celebrate with great art? What can we learn about American civics from our country’s rich and storied literary tradition?”
Drawing from the What So Proudly We Hail collection, they will discuss Willa Cather’s posthumous short story “The Best Years,” with its strong themes of the civic importance of family and the risks and rewards of technological advancement and “progress.”
Read along and join us Thursday, August 14 at 3:00 pm ET for this live conversation!