We invite you to join us for our upcoming events!

We're hosting the next event in our American History Series tomorrow, and on Thursday, we will hold a special discussion on transparency in education. You are also invited to join us next week for the latest webinar in the Great American Literature Series: Henry James's Turn of the Screw.

For more webinars on American history and literature, please take a look at our Celebrating America webinar series.

More on these webinars:

Join NAS tomorrow on Tuesday, March 1st, at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "1955-1975: Quagmire - America in Vietnam."

In the 1960s, the growth of Soviet satellite states led the U.S. to escalate its involvement in the country of Vietnam. With the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to increase the American military presence in Vietnam.

This war would drag on for years, claiming the lives of over 58,000 American servicemen and wounding hundreds of thousands more. The Vietnam War led to fundamental shifts in American domestic life, including the rise of anti-war protest movements on college campuses.

What have been the long-term effects of the Vietnam War on the American psyche? Is the war remembered as a failure, a success, or something else? How did the war alter domestic life, both during its course and in its aftermath? How did the conclusion of the war alter U.S. foreign policy?

The webinar will feature Pierre Asselin, Professor of History and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University; Larry Berman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the  University of California, Davis; and Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS this Thursday, March 3rd, at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "Transparency in Education: Shining a Light on Curricula and Expenditures."

Over the last year, parents and students have fought to reform education in K-12 schools and colleges around the country. They've demanded quality education: an education that focuses on core subjects such as math, science, history, and writing, not identitarian politics. While there have been many successes, such as the taming of ethnic studies curricula in California and the recall of school board members who stand in the way of reform, there is still more to be done.

Transparency bills ensure that school administrators cannot secretly continue to promote divisive theories in curricula their schools adopt. Moreover, other transparency bills encourage fiscal responsibility both at the K-12 level and at colleges and universities.

Citizens and parents should know what their local taxes are funding, and college students should know what to expect at their institutions.

This event will feature Matt Beienburg, director of education policy at the Goldwater Institute; Noah Pollak, advisor to Parents Defending Education Action; and David Randall, director of research at the National Association of Scholars. The discussion will be moderated by John Sailer, research associate at the National Association of Scholars

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join us next Tuesday, March 8th, at 2 pm ET, as we discuss The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”

The Turn of the Screw is one of the foundational works of modern horror. What makes The Turn of the Screw a great American novel? How has the novella informed or been informed by the horror genre? In what ways is it distinctive from traditional gothic horror? Who influenced James's writings, and who did his writings influence?

This webinar will feature Michael Anesko, Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State University, a member of the editorial board of the Henry James Review, and a former President of the Henry James Society; Daniel Mark Fogel, Professor of English, former President of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, founding editor of the Henry James Review, and former executive director of the Henry Hames Society; and John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California Associates Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, American Studies, and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature, and Vice President of the Henry James Society.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

If you can't attend the events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

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!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars