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"1619 vs. 1776: Why Was America Founded?" with Wilfred McClay & Lucas Morel
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In August 2019, the New York Times launched its 1619 Project ([link removed]) , an alternative history of the United States that explicitly foregrounded slavery and its consequences in the American story (and, in an earlier version, explicitly
named the year 1619 as our "true founding" ([link removed]) ). The series went on to receive a great deal of acclaim ([link removed]) , as well as criticism ([link removed]) from sources as diverse as the World Socialist Web Site ([link removed]) and National Review ([link removed]) . Most recently, President Trump announced a 1776 Commission ([link removed]) to promote civic education in the United States in direct response to the New York Times project.
Join Lucas Morel ([link removed]) and Wilfred McClay ([link removed]) (whose recent Land of Hope ([link removed]) serves as the basis of the 1776 Commission's curricular design) for a conversation on the role of slavery in America's Founding, the 1619 Project, and the establishment of the principles of liberty and equality in our nation's origin.
Questions on the topic are encouraged and may be sent in advance to
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Thursday, October 1, 2020 • 3:00 PM EDT
A virtual webinar through Zoom
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
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Wilfred M. McClay is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests focus on the intellectual and cultural history of the United States, with particular attention to the social and political thought of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, the history of American religious thought and institutions, and the theory and practice of biographical writing. A recipient of many teaching awards and honors, he has been the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Academy of Education.
Professor McClay previously served on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America ([link removed]) , won the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history. Besides Land of Hope, he is the author of The Student’s Guide to U.S. History ([link removed]) , and co-editor of Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America ([link removed]) and Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Public Life in Modern America ([link removed]) .
Professor McClay is a JMC board member.
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Lucas E. Morel is the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests include Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison. Professor Morel is former president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, a consultant on Library of Congress exhibits on Lincoln and the Civil War, and currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial
Commission, which will plan activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. He is the author/editor of several books, most recently authoring Lincoln and the American Founding ([link removed]) (2020). Additionally, Professor Morel teaches in the Master’s Program in American History and Government at Ashland University in Ohio, summer programs for the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, and high school teacher workshops sponsored by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, the John M. Ashbrook Center, the Jack Miller Center, and the Liberty Fund.
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