Please consider joining us for our upcoming webinar events. We're queued up to continue our Great American Novel and American History series with discussions of American Pastoral and the The Missouri Compromise.

This Thursday at 2 pm ET, NAS is hosting American Pastoral by Philip Roth. Roth's 1997 novel tracks the tragic derailment of the life of Seymour "Swede" Levov, a once successful businessman whose life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s. What makes American Pastoral a great American novel? What does the American Pastoral refer to? How is American Pastoral relevant for readers today? Our speakers will discuss these questions and more during this event.
 

The webinar will feature Michael Wood, Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University; Matthew Shipe, Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Advanced Writing at Washington University in St. Louis; and Steven Malanga, Senior Editor of City Journal and George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
 

To read more about this event, click here.

Next Tuesday, July 6th at 2 pm ET, we're hosting 1820: The Missouri Compromise and its Legacy. This is the next event in our American History webinar series, in which our speakers will discuss the background and legacy of the Missouri Compromise. They will also consider whether the Compromise was an unbridled success, as many claim, or a necessary evil.

This event will feature John Craig Hammond, Associate Professor of History at Penn State University, New Kensington; and Jeffrey Pasley, Professor and Associate Director at the University of Michigan's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

If you can't attend, but would like to receive a recording of any of these events, I encourage you to register anyway. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the event recording.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!