Steve Hayward, The Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Fellow at the Ashbrook Center has an article in the December 3 issue of National Review. In the article Hayward addresses the pessimism that is surrounding the Republican party after the re-election of Obama … Continue reading
Ashbrook Professor John Moser has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Earhart Foundation to complete a book analyzing the causes of World War II from the perspective of economic history. Historians and economists generally give two different accounts of … Continue reading
The Ashbrook Center has collected all 80 weekly letters from an Ohio Farmer into one edition, A Constitutional Conversation: The Complete Letters from an Ohio Farmer. Copies are available in print through Amazon as well as in digital format through … Continue reading
In the last days before the presidential election, Ohio seems to be the fulcrum on which the results will turn—rightward toward Romney or leftward toward Obama. A number of Ashbrook Scholars, well aware of Ohio’s pivotal role, have been working … Continue reading
Why should the Ashbrook Scholar travel? Given the supports to her education offered on campus—great professors, a shared community of inquiry, a program that focuses on the great texts themselves, rather than on scholars who chatter about the texts—why venture … Continue reading
Steve Hayward, the Ashbrook Center’s Thomas W. Smith Senior Fellow appeared as a guest on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America. Hayward and Bennett discussed the Presidential Debates. Listen to the full audio: Bill Bennett’s Morning in American with guest Steven Hayward … Continue reading
Assistant Professor Michael Schwarz brings youthful energy to undergraduate and master’s seminars in early American history. A specialist in the early republic who earned his PhD from the University of Kentucky in 2008, Schwarz currently teaches American history through the … Continue reading
Steven F. Hayward has been named the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Fellow at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Hayward directs the Ashbrook Center’s new program in political economy and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses. Hayward is also … Continue reading
September 17 marks the 225th anniversary of our nation’s founding document. On this day in 1787, the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. They sent it on to the people in the … Continue reading
This is part 3 in the series Formation of the Ashbrook Scholar. Any reputable college schedules a freshman orientation period for incoming students. Like other schools, Ashland University offers new students campus tours, dorm meetings, “team-building” exercises, and a barrage of … Continue reading
