We invite you to join us for a special webinar event tomorrow on the history, law, and development of the American frontier! Next week we will continue our Celebrating America webinar series with "1965: LBJ and the Great Society."

Our next two webinars are:

Join NAS tomorrow, March 22nd, at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "Shaping the West: The Development of the American Frontier."

Why did Americans migrate west, and what made them stay? How did the region come to develop its own unique identity? What was the character of the American West, and where can we see its influence today?

In this webinar, we will consider the many aspects of the American frontier's development, including the political and economic conditions that gave rise to the development of the American West, the role of railroads, and the development of a uniquely western regional identity.

The webinar will feature Richard Etulain, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico; Patty Limerick, Professor of History and Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder; and Brad Birzer, Professor of History and Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS next Tuesday, March 29th, at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "1965: LBJ and the Great Society."

In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a series of domestic programs termed the "Great Society" that sought to rival the New Deal agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration. The programs announced a "war on poverty" in addition to domestic priorities including civil rights (the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965), education (the Higher Education Act of 1963), health (the Social Security Act of 1965, which created Medicare and Medicaid, and the Food Stamp Act of 1964), the arts (the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting), transportation (the establishment of the Department of Transportation), and the environment (Water Quality Act of 1965, Clean Air Act of 1963, Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and many more). The changes from the Great Society programs were sweeping, and many of the acts passed under President Johnson's "Great Society" still remain important programs and institutions today.

What results have Great Society programs obtained for the American people over the last 50 years? Have these programs been successful?

This event will feature Randall Woods, Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas; Julia Sweig, non-resident senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, former senior fellow and Nelson and David Rockefeller Chair and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; and David Zarefsky, Emeritus Professor of Communication at Northwestern University and President of the Rhetoric Society of America.
The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars.

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