Lehrman American Studies Center

The American College of History and Legal Studies (ACHLS), opening in August of 2010, is a revolutionary development in American higher education. It is a "senior college," offering only the junior and senior years. It will be the first college in the country to focus solely on the study of American history. All faculty in substantive courses will teach by the discussion method, not by the lecture method. ACHLS will be truly affordable to students, will have very small classes, will provide "pathways to law school" for students who seek to attend law school, and will enable graduates to pursue many other career options as well. It will stress rigor of thinking, speaking and writing.

ACHLS seeks both professors of history and writing professors. Professors of history must be prepared to teach across the span of U.S. history as well as more specialized electives. They also will cooperate with the writing professors, since the topics in the writing courses will be taken from the substantive history courses. We seek history professors whose major interests will lie in teaching and working with students rather than research and writing.

Writing professors will, as said, cooperate with the history professors, since the writing topics, and relevant ideas and facts, will be drawn from the subject matter of the substantive history courses.

Applicants should submit curriculum vitae and references to ACHLS' Founding Dean, Lawrence R. Velvel, American College of History and Legal Studies, 52 Stiles Road, Suite 200B, Salem, New Hampshire 03079 or info@achls.org. Interviews will be conducted in January 2010 by the Founding Dean, Board of Trustees member Joseph Ellis (the Pulitzer Prize winning historian), the Founding Professor, and the Founding Associate Dean.