JMC News and Events
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
Should America's Colleges Teach Patriotism?
Join us in Chicago October 3 for dinner, drinks, and an all-star panel discussion
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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?
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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 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.
Author, professor, and former president of St. John's College John Agresto 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?"
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JMC 2019 Annual Summit on Higher Education
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Chicago Athletic Hotel
12 S Michigan Ave.
Downtown Chicago
A complimentary event
Summit Schedule
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Seating is limited. If you would like to attend or have any questions, please click the RSVP button below.
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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.
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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.
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Will you join us in the effort?
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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Thomas Jefferson: A Life of Learning and a Life of Law
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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 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 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.
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Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
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Purchase the book from Thomas Nelson or Amazon >>
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Want to help transform higher education?
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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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