Year: Summer 2025

Institution: University of Chicago

Instructor: Dr. Fred Beuttler

Course Description: In this course, participants trace the history of migration, immigration, and citizenship to the lands that became the United States, from the colonial period to the present. 

Year: Summer 2024

Institution: University of Chicago

Instructor: Dr. Fred Beuttler

Course Description: This course considers the history of America from the colonial period to the present as “contested ground” where various political perspectives have debated the meaning of liberty and equality, and the conditions for a just and stable society.

Date: Summer 2024, 2025, & 2026

Institution: Coastal Carolina University

Instructor(s): Dr. Kimberly Hurd Hale and Dr. Drew Kurlowski

Course Description:  In this survey, course participants examine the fundamental principles and major institutions of American government.  

Year: Summer 2025

Institution: Tufts University

Instructor: Dr. Ioannis Evrigenis

Course Description: Using Jeffrey Rosen’s book, The Pursuit of Happiness, and a range of primary sources from the ancient world to early America, participants explore such concepts as virtue, order, temperance, and justice to think about the place of these values in contemporary conceptions of citizenship and civic education. 

Year: Summer 2024

Institution: Tufts University

Instructor: Dr. Ioannis Evrigenis

Course Description: By comparing the writings of early Americans and ancient thinkers, this course examines why Greece and Rome provided examples to be emulated and pitfalls to be avoided as the founders crafted the new republic.