13th Carl B. Menges Colloquium, a Webinar, “The Conception of America,”
September 14 – 18
AHI co-sponsors: The National Association of Scholars (NAS) and Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)
Monday, September 14
10:45 am—Welcome and Opening Remarks:
— Chuck DeVore, Vice President of National Initiatives, Texas Public Policy Foundation
— Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars
11:15 am—Opening Address: “The Very DNA of this Country”
—Peter Kirsanow, Partner at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff and current Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
3:30 pm — Panel Discussion: Absences from the 1619 Project’s History
Moderated by Thomas Lindsay, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Higher Education and Constitutional Studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation
— John Stauffer, Professor of English, American Studies, and African American Studies at Harvard University on “The White Abolitionist Tradition”
— Diana Schaub. Professor of Political Science at Loyola University, Maryland, on “Frederick Douglass”
Tuesday, September 15th
11:00 am —The Spirit of the Adams Family
—Susan Hanssen, Associate Professor and Chair of History at the University of Dallas
2:00 pm — Our Founding Ideals
—Paul A. Rahe, Professor of History and Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College
Wednesday, September 16th
11:00 am — Did Slavery Make America Rich?
— Peter A. Coclanis, Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:00 pm — Panel Discussion: Teaching American History
Moderated by Thomas Lindsay, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Higher Education and Constitutional Studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation
— Richard A. Johnson III, Director, Booker T. Washington Initiative, Texas Public Policy Foundation
— Robert Maranto, 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas
— Jamie Gass, Director of the Center for School Reform, Pioneer Institute
Thursday, September 17th
11:00 am — What Made American Slavery Distinctive?
— Robert L. Paquette, President and Executive Director at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
2:00 pm — Panel Discussion: American Ideals
Moderated by Thomas Lindsay, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Higher Education and Constitutional Studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation
— Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, on “Who was the Declaration For?”
— Jason Ross, Professor of Political Science of Helms School of Government at Liberty University, on “Was the Constitution Written to Protect Slavery?”
— Joseph Fornieri, Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology, on “Did Lincoln Oppose Black Equality?”
Friday, September 18th
11:00 am — Panel Discussion: Let America Be America Again
Moderated by Dr. Richard A. Johnson III, Director, Booker T. Washington Initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation
— Cathy Young, Contributing Editor at Reason
— Wilfred Reilly, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kentucky State University
— Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
2:00 pm — Slavery and Liberation: Defying the Power of Legree’s Ghosts
— William B. Allen, Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University, and Emeritus Dean, James Madison College
3:45 pm — Closing Remarks:
— Chuck DeVore, Vice President of National Initiatives, Texas Public Policy Foundation
— Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars