Please consider joining NAS in the coming weeks for webinar events discussing American history and great American novels. You can find all of our upcoming events in these series here. 

Our next two webinars are:

On Tuesday, August 3rd at 2 pm ET, we're hosting "1800-1840: The Second Great Awakening." This webinar will discuss the origins and effects of the Second Great Awakening, a religious revival that swept the nation in the early 19th century. 

This event will feature Robert Caldwell, professor of church history for the school of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Thomas Kidd, distinguished professor of history and the James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History at Baylor University; and John Wigger, professor of history at the University of Missouri.

Join NAS the following week on Tuesday, August 10th at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its companion story, Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving explores themes of progress and tradition, the supernatural and its influence, and the place of the outsider in insular communities.

What makes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow great American stories? How have they informed or been informed by American folklore? Who influenced Irving's writings, and who did his writings influence?

This event will feature Mark Bauerlein, emeritus professor of English at Emory University and senior editor at First Things; Andrew Burstein, Charles P. Manship Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving; and Brian Jay Jones, New York Times bestselling biographer and author of Washington Irving: An American Original, the definitive biography of Irving.

To read more about this event, click here.

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!