Here’s new evidence that Ashbrook’s teacher programs are helping to mold some of the nation’s best educators: teachers in Ashbrook programs are winning state-wide awards. Stacy Moses of Sandia Preparatory School in New Mexico and Kelly Eddy of Churchill High … Continue reading
I recently found myself in the awkward position of trying to explain what Presidents’ Day means to an inquiring 12-year-old student. After a few minutes of uninterrupted babble on my part, she said she still didn’t get it. Of course, … Continue reading
Ashbrook Scholars share a passion for politics and the history of government. But not all are history and political science majors. A math major, Donnie Dottei, just defended his Ashbrook Statemanship thesis showing how the methods of an ancient mathematician … Continue reading
BY DAVID TUCKER Last Sunday, a law professor from Georgetown University, Louis Michael Seidman, went on CBS TV and said we should give up on the Constitution: I’ve got a simple idea: Let’s give up on the Constitution. . . … Continue reading
Today, Marvin J. Krinsky, Chairman of the Ashbrook Board, announced the retirement of Peter W. Schramm from the position of Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center effective May 31, 2013. “Under Peter’s leadership the Ashbrook Center has prospered and grown … Continue reading
My mother–now moving towards 88–hasn’t been to a movie in over ten years, yet she insisted on seeing Lincoln. I was delighted to go to a movie with Mom, happy to see every seat taken, and even more delighted to hear … Continue reading
Nancie Lindblom believes the study of American history can inspire positive civic action. On the walls of her classroom at Skyline High School in Mesa, Arizona, she has hung three simple exhortations: “Take a stand,” “Use your voice,” and “Make … Continue reading
Need a book recommendation this Christmas? Here a few from Steven Hayward: Amity Shlaes’s book on the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, is perhaps the best book ever written puncturing the pretentions of … Continue reading
Steve Hayward, the Ashbrook Center’s Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Fellow, has an article in the Fall 2012 volume of the Claremont Review of Books. The article, “Up From Liberalism” is a review of Charles Kessler’s book I Am the … Continue reading
December 15 is Bill of Rights Day. On this day 221 years ago, the Virginia assembly added its assent to that of ten other states who had already ratified a set of amendments to the new Constitution, producing the three-quarters … Continue reading
