JMC News and Events
See our latest news on advancing education in America's founding principles and history
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The 2018-2019 Jack Miller Center Annual Report
Read how your support has made a difference on college campuses around the country
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Thanks to the support of so many donors, we have made a great deal of progress toward our mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. More students taught, more professors in our network, new campus partnerships and growing programs—we are excited and focused on the future.
Highlights:
- As of this fall, our faculty partners have taught more than 1,000,000 undergraduate students
- Founding Civics for high school teachers – graduate courses and seminars taught by our faculty partners – now has programs in Chicago, New York City, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Philadelphia
- New campus programs and partnerships developed as part of our Pacific Northwest Initiative, a regional effort to broaden our impact
- Message from Jack Miller, notable books by faculty partners, national conferences, curricular initiatives, and much more...
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Will you join us in the effort?
Our impact is expanding. As of this academic year, one million students have been taught by a JMC fellow. Help us ensure many more young citizens learn about America's history and its founding principles.
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Islam and Religious Liberty
On January 21, the John Dickinson Forum at George Fox University, a JMC partner program, will be hosting Asma Uddin to speak on religious liberty and its relation to Islam.
Shakespeare and Politics
On January 22, the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University will be hosting JMC faculty partner Paul Cantor, Isaac Butler, and Nichole Miller for a discussion panel on Shakespeare and politics.
Rome, Machiavelli's Discourses, and the Fate of Imperial Republics
On January 23, the Lyceum Program Speaker Series at Clemson University will be hosting JMC fellow Daniel Kapust for a lecture on the political thought of Machiavelli. The event, co-hosted by the University's Department of Political Science and the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, will be the first of a JMC-supported speaker series.
Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
On January 28, the Alexander Hamilton Forum at Middlebury College, a newly inducted JMC partner program, will host Nadine Strosser to speak on the tensions between censorship and freedom of speech. Her talk will draw on her recent book, Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship.
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Defining Statesmanship: A Comparative Political Theory Analysis
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More than a historical analysis, these case studies in statesmanship provide citizens today with a vocabulary for identifying and debating the characteristics of this time-honored but often obscure term. In a time when many citizens long for more dignified leadership, Defining Statesmanship offers a timely reflection on this timeless political idea.
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JMC fellow Sarah Burns has recently written a book on war powers and the history and theory of presidential unilateralism, The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism:
The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action. This division of powers compels both branches to hold each other accountable and work in tandem. And yet, since the Cold War, congressional ambition has waned on this front.
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Even when Congress does provide initial authorization for larger operations, they do not provide strict parameters or clear end dates. As a result, one president after another has initiated and carried out poorly developed and poorly executed military policy. The Politics of War Powers offers a measured, deeply informed look at how the American constitutional system broke down, how it impacts decision-making today, and how we might find our way out of this unhealthy power division.
Burns’s work ranges across Montesquieu’s theory, the debate over the creation of the Constitution, historical precedent, and the current crisis. Through her analysis, both a fuller picture of the alterations to the constitutional system and ideas on how to address the resulting imbalance of power emerge. |
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About the Jack Miller Center
The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. We work to advance the teaching and study of America's history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas and issues arising from the American and Western traditions—all of which continue to animate our national life.
We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.
www.jackmillercenter.org
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