You’re invited to two events this coming week! Join us for these two special events where we’ll discuss the nuances of the past and how we teach these events today.
 

First up, on Tuesday, April 27^th at 2 pm ET we are launching our new report, Skewed History: Textbook History Coverage of Early America and the New Deal. The report reviews and critiques five textbook’s coverage of four historical periods from the European settlement of North America to the New Deal.

Our speakers will discuss what they recommend for better history curriculums and textbooks, as well as their reflections on how a better history education will affect how America negotiates its future based on an illustrious, though imperfect, past.

This webinar will feature Coolidge scholar and author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge, Amity Shlaes; Professor of History an author of numerous books on American political thought and practice, Kevin R.C. Gutzman; Associate Professor and Dean of the Helms School of Government at Liberty University, Jason Ross; Professor of Law at Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University, Bruce Fohnen; Research Associate at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, William Pettinger; and NAS’s own Director of Research, David Randall. Other speakers include Robert Paquette, Stanley Kurtz, Katharine Gorka, Jamie Gass, and Theodore Rebarber.

You can read more about this event here.

This report was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

On Thursday, April 29^th at 2 pm ET, we’re hosting 1787: The Constitutional Convention and Political Participation in the Early Republic, to discuss how the Constitutional Convention’s product altered the relationship between almost sovereign state governments and the newly created national government. We’ll also ask, what did the ratification of the Constitution mean for national unity?

This event will feature Eric Nelson, Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University; James Stoner, Hermann Moyse, Jr., Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University; Jack Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University. The discussion will be moderated by Barry Shain, Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University.

To read more about this event, click here.

Please register if you are unable to attend either of these events. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the event recording.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!


Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in Skewed History or in this launch event, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.