Lehrman American Studies Center at ISI

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The Lehrman American Studies Center, a part of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, is dedicated to improving American universities' transmission of the political, economic, and moral principles that sustain a free and humane society. Read more about what we do and how you can help.

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  • The Best of Triumph
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    Triumph magazine was published during the most critical period of American history since the Civil War: 1966–1976. These were the years when America passed through a near-revolution and ceased to identify itself as a Christian nation, becoming increasingly secular and…

  • Miracles and Physics by Stanley L. Jaki
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    Two dangers confront the modern Christian regarding the apparent conflict between the role of miracles and the rigors of modern science. First, a naiveté that forces such shallow methods upon the scientific disciplines that result in the evaporation of both…

Course level: 600 or above
  • Church, State, and American Democracy
    by David Franks
    "The first truth to which the American Proposition makes appeal is stated in…the Declaration of Independence. It is a truth that lies beyond politics; it imparts to politics a fundamental human meaning. I mean the sovereignty of God over nations…
Course level: 100
  • Introduction to Politics
    by David C. Innes
    Course Description: This course addresses fundamental questions about the nature of politics, questions about religion and politics, the individual and the community, liberty and tyranny, and does so through a selection of great political literature, essays, films and theological classics. It…
Course level: Unknown
  • Puritans and Planters: The American Colonial Experience
    by Chris Esh
    Course Description: This seminar-style course will focus on the cultural, religious, and intellectual sources of American identity in its colonial history. It develops in detail the foundations of this identity in the Puritan, Planter, Quaker, African, and Backcountry migrations to British…
  • Survey of Western Civilization II
    by Preston Jones
    I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain…
Course level: 300
  • Religion in America
    by Thomas Kidd
    Course Description: A study of the variety and persistence of American religious beliefs and practices from the meeting of European and Native American peoples in the 16th century to the turn of the 21st century.   Required Materials: Harry Stout…

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