Lehrman American Studies Center

Articles

• John Locke and the Preservation of Liberty: A Perennial Problem of Civic Education by Robert H. Horowitz
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• The Federalist Papers’ Vision of Civic Health and the Tradition Out of Which That Vision Emerges by Thomas L. Pangle
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• What the American Founders Have to Teach Us About Schooling for Democratic Citizenship by Thomas L. Pangle
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• Civic Virtue: The Founders’ Conception and the Traditional Conception by Thomas L. Pangle
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• The Retrieval of Civic Virtue: A Critical Appreciation of Sandel’s Democracy’s Discontent by Thomas L. Pangle
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Books

• Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering A Tradition Can Improve Our Schools (with a Curriculum for Today's Students) by Robert E. Proctor
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  Defining the Humanities traces the history of the tradition of the liberal arts, from the origin of the term by Cicero (studii humanitatis), through Petrarca and the Italian Renaissance, to the American founding.

• Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller
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  William Lee Miller's Lincoln's Virtues is less an "event" chronology than the tracing of the moral and ethical core of Abraham Lincoln's beliefs, what Miller calls the man's "unintended preparation for greatness." Miller posits that Lincoln rightly deserves his nonpareil…

• The Noblest Minds: Fame, Honor, and the American Founding by Peter McNamara
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• From Under the Rubble by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn and six dissident colleagues joined in the mid-1970s to write this book, which surely remains the most extraordinary debate of a nation's future published in modern times. Shattering a half-century of silence, From Under the Rubble constitutes a…

• Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge by Bruce S. Thornton
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  A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry-a legacy now…

Images

• Alexis de Tocqueville ( http://www.onlipix.com/ )
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Legal Documents

• Oath of Allegiance for Naturalized Citizens
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Websites

• Civic virtues: Moral imperatives grounded in religion call us to come to know a good in common we cannot know alone by Jean Bethke Elshtain
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