JMC News and Events
See our latest news on advancing education in America's founding principles and history
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Fellows News
Three JMC Fellows Appointed to the National Council on the Humanities
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The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the appointment of sixteen new members to the National Council on the Humanities. Distinguished new members include JMC fellows Keegan Callanan, William English, and Jean Yarbrough.
The appointees were nominated by President Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 1, 2019. The Council is the NEH's 26-member advisory body. It meets three times a year to review grant applications and to advise the NEH chairman.
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William English is an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He previously served as a research associate with the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, where his research examined new educational technologies, the value of humanistic learning, and questions about civic education and the public role of universities.
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New Constitutional Studies Minor at the University of Portland
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The minor provides students who are considering going to law school with a foundational experience in thinking about, writing about, and discussing the law. Furthermore, it provides something that all University of Portland students should be interested in: knowledge of the U.S. government’s foundational document that will enable them to become a more effective and engaged democratic citizens.
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2019 Summer Institutes: "America in the Republican Tradition"
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Young scholars will turn to the origins of what the Founders called this “experiment” in republican self-government and draw from a variety of texts from the founding period to the present. Participants have the opportunity to connect with other early-career scholars as well as senior faculty with similar interests and concerns. They join JMC’s community of fellows dedicated to the study and teaching of America’s founding principles, consisting of some 950 JMC Fellows on over 300 college campuses across the country.
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Will you join us in the effort?
Our impact is expanding. This fall, the one millionth student will be taught by a JMC Fellow. A donation from you can enable so many more students to learn about our nation's history and its founding principles.
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“I cannot begin to explain how constitutional studies has helped me gain better insight to modern American politics and simple daily actions like watching the news.... I really felt like I was not learning old material, but trying to answer the questions of the future.”
Stanley F.
Undergraduate Student
University of Notre Dame
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JMC Lincoln Symposium in American Political Thought
On July 26-28, the Jack Miller Center held its 2019 Lincoln Symposium in American Political Thought in Seattle, WA. The 2019 theme was "Liberalism and Its Challenges." Participants presented their work to peers, as well as senior faculty, who critiqued and strengthened each presentation in preparation for publishing. This highly-regarded symposium gives scholars the rare opportunity to workshop their pieces prior to submission, supporting the scholarship and career advancement of educators who share our mission.
Civic Spirit: New York City High School Teacher Institute
Civic Spirit hosted its second weeklong summer program for teachers at Macaulay Honors College July 29-August 1 as part of JMC's Founding Civics Initiative. Building on last year's institute, Jewish and Catholic school teachers used primary and secondary sources to consider the purpose of civic education and current reform efforts, and explored the challenges of citizenship when principle and practice collide.
Chicago's Newberry Library Seminar for Teachers: Constitutional Rights
In partnership with JMC and Roosevelt University's Montesquieu Forum, the Newberry Library hosted a seminar for teachers August 7-9 on "Constitutional Rights: Their Roots and Scope." Teachers explored the philosophical foundations of rights and the Founders' understanding of constitutional rights, and examined freedom of speech in the First Amendment.
APSA Panel: "The Political Theory of Slavery and Abolition"
On August 30, JMC fellow Gregory Collins will be chairing a panel on "The Political Theory of Slavery and Abolition" at the annual APSA meeting in Washington, D.C. Also on the panel will be JMC fellows Joshua Lynn and Robinson Woodward-Burns.
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The Fourteenth Amendment: History, Ratification, and Reaction
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In recognition of the Fourteenth Amendment's adoption on July 28, the Jack Miller Center presents a collection of articles from JMC fellows and other resources about the Fourteenth Amendment and its impact on American political development. The amendment granted citizenship to those born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed freedom, due process, and equal protection under the law to all Americans. In doing so, it expanded the scope of the Constitution’s protection of individual liberty. |
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The Idea of Presidential Representation: An Intellectual and Political History
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Does the president represent the entire nation? Or does he speak for core partisans and narrow constituencies? The Federalist Papers, the electoral college, history and circumstance from the founders’ time to our own: all factor in theories of presidential representation, again and again lending themselves to different interpretations. This back-and-forth, Jeremy D. Bailey contends, is a critical feature, not a flaw, in American politics. Arriving at a moment of great debate over the nature and exercise of executive power, Bailey’s history offers an invaluable, remarkably relevant analysis of the intellectual underpinnings, political usefulness, and practical merits of contending ideas of presidential representation over time.
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About the Jack Miller Center
The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. We work to advance the teaching and study of America's history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas and issues arising from the American and Western traditions—all of which continue to animate our national life.
We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.
www.jackmillercenter.org
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