The Ashbrook Center cordially invites the public to participate in the Ashbrook Colloquium, the purpose of which is to dedicate particular Friday afternoons to informal discussions of an academic nature. We schedule an impressive list of academic scholars to lead these discussions by introducing recently published projects on which they have been working and opening the program up to questions and comments.

Our intention is to provide a forum for the discussion of a wide series of topics. We have three such meetings each semester, always on Friday afternoons at 3 p.m. in the Ashbrook Center on the eighth floor of the University library. Although we expect each discussion to formally last about an hour and a half, attendees may come and go as they wish. We introduce the guest, let him take no more than twenty minutes to characterize the subject, and then open the topic to discussion.

Jean Edward Smith
Topic: FDR
Friday, November 02, 2007

Gordon Lloyd
Topic: Hoover’s Rugged Individual Meets Roosevelt’s Forgotten Man
Friday, October 05, 2007

Harry V. Jaffa
Topic: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Friday, March 23, 2007

Michael Anton
Topic: Clothes Make the Man
Friday, February 23, 2007

Russell Weaver
Topic: Questioning Keats
Friday, November 10, 2006

James Ceaser
Topic: Foundational Ideas in American Political Thought
Friday, October 13, 2006

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding
Topic: Harry Truman, the Cold War, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
Friday, September 22, 2006

Matthew Spalding
Topic: Does the Original Constitution Still Matter?
Friday, March 24, 2006

Ralph A. Rossum
Topic: Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition
Friday, February 24, 2006

Myles Weber
Topic: Consuming Silences
Friday, November 18, 2005

James W. Muller
Topic: The Education of Winston Churchill
Friday, October 21, 2005

Larry Schweikart
Topic: Why We Need a Patriot’s History of the United States
Friday, September 23, 2005

Danielle Allen
Topic: Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education
Friday, April 01, 2005

Stephen Knott
Topic: Alexander Hamilton in Myth and Memory
Friday, February 25, 2005

James McPherson
Friday, February 11, 2005

Robert H. Ferrell
Topic: Good Fortune in Politics: The Case of Calvin Coolidge
Friday, January 28, 2005

David Hackett Fischer
Topic: Liberty and Freedom
Friday, October 29, 2004

Wolfgang Bergsdorf
Topic: The Reunification of Germany
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Allen C. Guelzo
Topic: The Emancipation Moment: Abraham Lincoln and the First of January, 1863
Friday, February 27, 2004

John Koritansky
Topic: Thomas Paine: American Radical
Friday, January 30, 2004

Peter C. Myers
Topic: John Locke on the Constitution of the Liberal Family
Friday, November 14, 2003

Donald Brand
Topic: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights
Friday, October 17, 2003

Steven Forde
Topic: Benjamin Franklin’s Democratic Virtues
Friday, September 26, 2003

Jeffrey Tiel
Topic: The Ethics of Espionage
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

James W. Muller
Topic: Winston Churchill’s River War
Friday, February 28, 2003

Richard Ruderman
Topic: Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison
Friday, February 07, 2003

Ken Masugi
Topic: Reconstituting American Citizenship: A Response to September 11
Friday, November 08, 2002

David Brennan
Topic: A Victory for the Kids, the Cleveland Voucher Case
Friday, October 25, 2002

Robert V. Remini
Topic: Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
Friday, September 06, 2002

Jean M. Yarbrough
Topic: American Virtues—Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Friday, April 12, 2002

Daniel J. Mahoney
Topic: From Under the Rubble: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the Postcommunist Present and Future
Friday, March 22, 2002

Andrew E. Busch
Topic: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom
Friday, February 08, 2002

Keith Windschuttle
Topic: The Killing of History
Monday, November 26, 2001

Herbert Romerstein
Topic: The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors
Friday, November 16, 2001

David Forte
Topic: Studies In Islamic Law
Friday, October 19, 2001

John E. Moser
Topic: Twisting the Lion’s Tail—American Anglophobia between the World Wars
Friday, September 21, 2001

William B. Allen
Topic: The Federalist Papers
Friday, April 27, 2001

Harvey Mansfield, Delba Winthrop
Topic: Democracy in America
Friday, March 30, 2001

Christopher C. Harmon
Topic: Terrorism Today
Friday, February 23, 2001

Mackubin T. Owens
Topic: The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant
Friday, February 02, 2001

Allen C. Guelzo
Topic: Great Fixer or Great Emancipator?
The Unlikely Intellectual Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Friday, December 01, 2000

Ronald J. Pestritto
Topic: Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America
Friday, November 03, 2000

Lucas Morel
Topic: Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government
Friday, October 13, 2000

Karl Walling
Topic: Why America Won the Cold War: Alexander Hamilton and American Freedom
Friday, April 07, 2000

Michael Uhlmann
Topic: Reflections on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Friday, March 24, 2000

Kimberly Shankman
Topic: Compromise and Republican Statecraft: The Political Thought of Henry Clay
Friday, March 17, 2000

Gary Rosen
Topic: American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding
Friday, February 25, 2000

Charles R. Kesler
Topic: The Federalist Papers
Friday, December 03, 1999

Bradley C.S. Watson
Topic: Civil Rights and Democracy
Friday, October 22, 1999

Herman Belz
Topic: The Constitution and Lincoln
Friday, September 24, 1999

C. Bradley Thompson
Topic: John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Thursday, March 04, 1999