NAS webinars are continuing apace. Please consider joining us in the coming weeks for 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:

Join NAS tomorrow 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.

The following week, on Tuesday, August 17 at 2 pm ET, we're hosting "1833: Jacksonian America and the Age of the Common Man." This webinar will discuss the political thought that gave rise to one of America's most memorable presidents. We'll ask, what effect did Jackson have on the future of American party politics? Was Jacksonian democracy in favor of the "common man," or did it transfer more responsibility and authority to the federal government?

This event will feature Daniel Feller, professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Jason Opal, associate professor of history at McGill University; and Harry L. Watson, the Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The discussion will be moderated by Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College.

To learn more about the 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!