The Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations will host its third annual Conference on Great Books and Ideas, on March 24-25, with a focus on classical Greek political philosophy. This year’s conference, “The Ancient Republic and the Birth of Political Philosophy,” will featur… Read the rest
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University is sponsoring a public conference on "Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the American Republic." The conference will take place May 17-18, 2010. For additional information, see the conference Read the rest
Title: Director of Outreach, ISI’s Lehrman American Studies Center
Posted Date: March 15, 2010
Deadlin… Read the rest
The historian and Lehrman Summer Institute Teaching Faculty member Gordon S. Wood won the American History Book Prize last week for "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815," an account of how America's leaders created the country's democratic institutions. The award, presented by the New-York Historical Society, comes with a $50,000 prize, an engraved… Read the rest
The upcoming American Society for Legal History conference, held November 18-21, 2010, in Philadelphia, will be on the general topic of "Law and the 'Right Turn' in post-1970 American Life and Politics."
Dr. Donald Rogers, Adjunct Lecturer at Central Connecticut State University, proposes forming… Read the rest
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University invites applications for its 2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present. We especially welcome proposals that will utilize the special collections of the Yale Uni… Read the rest
The Tocqueville Center for Legal and Political Thought at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland, is offering two post-doctoral teaching fellowships for young American political scientists whose primary field is political theory.
Recipients will spend the spring semester, 2011, in Łódź (mid-Februar… Read the rest
The Goldwater Institute, established in 1988 as an independent,
non-partisan research and educational organization dedicated to the
study of public policy, has several position openings. They
include: Director of Development, Vice President of Finance and
Administration, Administrative Assistant, and Development
Assistant.
For details about each of these, follow this… Read the
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The Lehrman American Studies Center will host an evening reception at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians on Friday, April 9, 2010, from 5:30-7:00pm. All past and prospective Lehrman fellows are invited to attend.
The event will be held at:
Hilton Washington
1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
For add… Read the rest
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies offers academic fellowships for faculty who teach in the fields of international affairs, history, political science or criminal justice.
The program features an intensive, 10-day course on terrorism and the threat it poses to democratic societies. Using Israel as a case study, professors are given access to top researchers and officials who pro… Read the rest
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