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** See our latest news on advancing education in America's founding principles and history

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** The JMC Annual Summit on Higher Education
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** Should America's Colleges Teach Patriotism?
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Join us in Chicago October 3 for dinner, drinks, and an all-star panel discussion

Can a free nation survive without patriotic citizens? A country that is not loved by its own people is unlikely to endure.

Patriotism is taught by families, places of worship, communities, and through public service. But what is the role of the the university in forming the next generation of citizens? And what part, if any, should it play in fostering patriotism?

These are some of the questions we will seek to answer on October 3, 2019 at the 2019 Jack Miller Center Summit on Higher Education. This is a complimentary event.

Join us (mailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP%20for%20the%20JMC%202019%20Summit) for cocktails, dinner and an all-star panel discussion to explore these questions and more.

The panel will be moderated by nationally-recognized political commentator and founder of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol ([link removed]) .

Author, professor, and former president of St. John's College John Agresto ([link removed]) will deliver the keynote address:

"Patriotism often looks simply natural, a universal sentiment of the heart. Now, that understanding might be truest for countries built on ties of blood, shared kinship, religion, or ethnicity; but how do we understand and promote patriotism in a nation founded on individualism more than binding ties, on pluralism, and on equal rights?"
JMC 2019 Annual Summit on Higher Education

Thursday, October 3, 2019
Chicago Athletic Hotel
12 S Michigan Ave.
Downtown Chicago


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A complimentary event
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Summit Schedule
* 3:30 pm - Registration Opens
* 4:00 pm - Panel Discussion with Peter Berkowitz ([link removed]) , Elizabeth Busch ([link removed]) , and Robert Ingram ([link removed]) (Moderator: Bill Kristol ([link removed]) )
* 5:30 pm - Cocktail Reception
* 6:30 pm - Dinner
* 7:30 pm - Keynote Address with John Agresto ([link removed])

Seating is limited. If you would like to attend or have any questions, please click the RSVP button below.
RSVP (mailto:[email protected]?subject=2019%20JMC%20Summit)


** JMC Welcomes Thomas Cleveland as the New Academic Programs Officer!
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Thomas Cleveland joined the Jack Miller Center August 2019 as Academic Programs Officer. He received his B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, where he studied the history of science, math, and philosophy. He was awarded his Ph.D. in political theory and American politics from Boston College in 2016.

Before joining the Jack Miller Center, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University and taught political theory and American politics at Miami University of Ohio and the College of the Holy Cross.


** Will you join us in the effort?
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Our impact is expanding. As of this fall, one million students have been taught by a JMC fellow. Help us ensure many more young citizens learn about America's history and its founding principles.
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** Events
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Thomas Jefferson: A Life of Learning and a Life of Law

On August 23, the Kinder Institute ([link removed]) at the University of Missouri hosted David Konig ([link removed]) for a lecture on Jefferson's vision of a life of learning - as well as Jefferson's own education - with particular emphasis on his recent research into the Virginia statesman's study of law ([link removed]) .

Be Careful What You Wish For: Exploring the Consequences of Electoral College Reform
On September 11, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies ([link removed]) at the University of Richmond, a JMC partner program ([link removed]) , hosted Joshua Kaplan ([link removed]) for a lecture on electoral college reform.

How to Think About The Federalist
On September 12, the Constitutional Studies Program ([link removed]) at the University of Notre Dame is hosting Charles Kesler ([link removed]) for a lecture on The Federalist Papers ([link removed]) .

The Lost Constitution: The Success and Failure of James Wilson and Gouverneur Morris
On September 20, fellow Jonathan Gienapp ([link removed]) will speak at the Kinder Institute ([link removed]) at the University of Missouri on the lost contributions of James Wilson and Gouverneur Morris to the drafting of the Constitution in 1787. In particular, Professor Gienapp will examine the questions of why their influence so rapidly dissipated and what this tells us about the creation of the Constitution ([link removed]) .


** Readings of Interest
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** Collection of Works in recognition of Labor Day
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In recognition of Labor Day on September 2, the Jack Miller Center presents a collection of articles ([link removed]) from JMC fellows and other resources about the American work ethic, the labor movement, and their impact on our nation's identity. In its earliest form, Labor Day consisted of street parades and picnics exhibiting the strength and number of local labor unions. Prominent citizens made speeches at these festivities, and the Sunday before the holiday was often dedicated to the educational and spiritual element of the organized labor movement. Labor Day festivities have changed since then, but labor and the nature of work still remain hot topics on the national stage.
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** The Fire is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
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JMC faculty partner Nicholas Buccola ([link removed]) has recently written a book on the monumental 1965 Cambridge Union debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr.:

On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was “the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola’s The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, the controversies that followed, and how the debate and the decades-long clash between the men continues to illuminate racial division today ([link removed]) .
Purchase the book from Princeton University Press ([link removed]) or Amazon ([link removed]) >>


** Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
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In 2010, JMC faculty partner Mark David Hall ([link removed]) gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation entitled “Did America Have a Christian Founding?” C-SPAN televised his talk ([link removed]) , and an essay based on it has been downloaded more than 300,000 times ([link removed]) .

In his new book, Hall expands upon this essay, making the case that America’s Founders were ([link removed]) not deists; that they did not create a “godless” Constitution; and that even Jefferson and Madison did not want a high wall separating church and state. Hall defends the idea that Christian thought was crucial to the nation’s founding–and that this benefits all of us, whatever our faith (or lack of faith).

Purchase the book from Thomas Nelson ([link removed]) or Amazon ([link removed]) >>
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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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