Previous Saturday Seminars

Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Movement, and the Shaping of "Modern" Politics — March 20, 2010
      Instructor: Sidney Milkis

Lincoln on Slavery, Race, and Civil Liberties — February 20, 2010
      Instructor: Michael Burlingame

The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989 — October 31, 2009
      Instructor: Steven Hayward

James Madison and the Constitution of a Free People — September 19, 2009
      Instructor: Colleen Sheehan

Up From History: The Rise of Booker T. Washington — April 4, 2009
      Instructor: Robert J. Norrell

Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe — January 24, 2009
      Instructor: William B. Allen

Abraham Lincoln, Westward Expansion, and the War with Mexico — November 8, 2008
      Instructor: Daniel Walker Howe

Frederick Douglass: The Original Audacity of Hope — October 17, 2008
      Instructor: Peter C. Myers

The Right to Land in the Land of Rights — April 19, 2008
      Instructor: Mark Hulliung

Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power — March 1, 2008
      Instructor: Jeremy Bailey

FDR and the Birth of the Modern Presidency — November 3, 2007
      Instructor: Jean Edward Smith

"A Contest Between Two Philosophies of Government": How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century — October 6, 2007
      Instructor: Gordon Lloyd

The Declaration in American History and World History — March 24, 2007
      Instructor: Harry V. Jaffa

Republicanism: Cynicism and Nobility in Theory and Practice — February 24, 2007
      Instructor: Michael Anton

Foundational Ideas in American Political Thought — October 14, 2006
      Instructor: James Ceaser

Reassessing Harry Truman's Statesmanship — September 23, 2006
      Instructor: Elizabeth Edwards Spalding

Originalism and the Constitution — March 25, 2006
      Instructors: Matthew Spalding and David Forte

Contemporary Supreme Court Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation — February 25, 2006
      Instructor: Ralph Rossum

Education, Politics, and War in Winston Churchill's My Early Life — October 22, 2005
      Instructors: James W. Muller and Justin D. Lyons

A Patriot's History of the United States — September 24, 2005
      Instructor: Larry Schweikart

What is Citizenship? — April 2, 2005
      Instructor: Danielle Allen

Jefferson and Hamilton: Opposed in Death as in Life — February 26, 2005
      Instructor: Stephen Knott

The Causes of the Civil War — February 12, 2005
      Instructor: James M. McPherson

Calvin Coolidge and the Staid 1920s — January 29, 2005
      Instructor: Robert Ferrell

Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas — October 30, 2004
      Instructor: David Hackett Fischer

A Reconsideration of the Original Case against the Bill of Rights — September 18, 2004
      Instructor: Hadley Arkes

Harry S. Truman and the American People: A Politician's Development, The People's Response — April 17, 2004
      Instructor: Alonzo Hamby

The Emancipation Moment: Abraham Lincoln and the First of January, 1863 — February 28, 2004
      Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo

Thomas Paine — January 31, 2004
      Instructor: John Koritansky

Martin Luther King, Jr. — November 15, 2003
      Instructor: Peter Myers

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights — October 18, 2003
      Instructor: Donald Brand

Benjamin Franklin — September 27, 2003
      Instructor: Steven Forde

The American Way of War — March 29, 2003
      Instructor: Victor Davis Hanson

How to Read Federalist #10 — March 1, 2003
      Instructor: James W. Muller

Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison — February 8, 2003
      Instructor: Richard S. Ruderman

Civil Rights in America — November 9, 2002
      Instructor: Ken Mausgi

Andrew Jackson — September 7, 2002
      Instructor: Robert Remini

America's Founding Principles — April 13, 2002
      Instructor: Christopher Flannery

The Origins and Development of American Political Parties — February 9, 2002
      Instructor: Andrew E. Busch

The American Founding and the Problem of Slavery — November 3, 2001
      Instructor: Thomas G. West

The Role of the Supreme Court in the American Constitutional System — September 22, 2001
      Instructor: Jeffrey Sikkenga

George Washington — April 28, 2001
      Instructor: William B. Allen

U.S. Foreign Policy During the Cold War: Principle and Prudence — February 3, 2001
      Instructor: Mackubin T. Owens

Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era — November 4, 2000
      Instructor: R. J. Pestritto

James Madison — February 26, 2000
      Instructor: Gary Rosen

The Federalist Papers — December 4, 1999
      Instructor: Charles R. Kesler

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — April 17, 1999
      Instructors: C. Bradley Thompson and David Mayer

Progressivism and the New Deal — November 7, 1998
      Instructor: John Alvis

Lincoln and the Civil War — March 7, 1998
      Instructor: Lucas E. Morel

Vindicating the Founders — December 6, 1997
      Instructor: Thomas G. West