Posted on 09/17/2010 1:18:12 AM PDT by iowamark
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First Annual Hillsdale College Constitution Day Colloquium
September 16 – 17, 2010
A live webcast sponsored by the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship
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Register for the Hillsdale College Constitution Day Celebration Webcast, a two-day program that commemorates the September 17, 1787, signing of the Constitution, and celebrates the enduring principles of that document.
We welcome your participation in this exciting event. Your constitutional questions are important to us, and during the event we encourage you to submit questions to the panelists, debaters, and lunch and dinner speakers via an email address that will be provided on this Web site’s log-on page.
In preparation for the Constitution Day Celebration, we invite you to visit the online Hillsdale College Constitution Reader:http://www.hillsdale.edu/KirbyCenter/resources/constitutionreader/default.asp, a collection of 100 primary source documents relating to the American Founding, the Civil War, Progressivism, and modern American government This is the same reader used in Hillsdale’s undergraduate core course on the Constitution.
With the teaching of Hillsdale College students its primary purpose, the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship is dedicated to the goal of re-establishing the fundamental conditions of freedom: true civic education in our schools and universities: a pride in self-government within society; and an understanding among our elected leaders of enduring constitutional principles. Through teaching the principles and practice of American constitutionalism, the Kirby Center seeks to inspire all Americans to act worthy of the blessings of liberty.
“We are providing a constitution for future generations, and not merely for the peculiar circumstances of the moment,” James Wilson, Founding Father and noted legal scholar, remarked at the Constitutional Convention in July 1787.
We look forward to reflecting together on this vital topic September 16 and 17.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR VIEWING LIVE WEBCASTS
Free Markets, Regulation and the Constitution
September 16, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. ET ⁄ 6:00 a.m. PT
Howard Zinn and Civic Education
September 16, 2010 at 10:45 a.m. ET ⁄ 7:45 a.m. PT
Does Tea Party Constitutionalism Have a Future?
September 16, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. ET ⁄ 9:30 a.m. PT
Founding Father
September 16, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. ET ⁄ 5:00 p.m. PT
How to Interpret the Constitution: A Debate
September 17, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. ET ⁄ 6:00 a.m. PT
Civil Liberties and Islamic Terrorism: A Debate
September 17, 2010 at 10:45 a.m. ET ⁄ 7:45 a.m. PT
The Constitution and the 2010 Elections
September 17, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. ET ⁄ 9:30 a.m. PT
Why We Celebrate Constitution Day
September 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. ET ⁄ 5:00 p.m. PT
The Howard Zinn and Civil Education panel was very interesting....the other ones on Thurs. were quite good also.
I’m glad you posted this- heard the ads for it on Rush and I’d forgotten exactly when it was- what a great idea!
Is this the same Howard Zinn who wrote “A People’s History of The United States”?
That guy?
Yes...they talk about the content of that revisionist (at best) book. This webcast is excellent. It should be mandatory listening for all U.S. teachers.
Okay, good.
I had a real eye opening experience with that book. My mother-in-law was a major, MAJOR liberal, and she gave that book to me one Christmas as a gift. She knew how much I enjoyed history, and I thought it was a wonderful gift. When I got home, I sat down and began reading it. I don’t think I was even through the first page, and I thought “What the heck is this book saying?” I skipped a few pages forward, and read that. A few more, and before I knew it, I had just sampled about a dozen parts of the book at random, and every single sample I read was revisionist, anti-American, liberal history. I had no idea who the author was, and I found the book appalling.
My first thought was that my mother-in-law was poking me in the eye, but after I thought a few minutes, I knew that wouldn’t have been the case. I know how she shopped, and I know that she saw the book on the $5 rack at a Borders Bookstore somewhere and bought it months before Christmas. She certainly wouldn’t have read it, and I doubt this ever crossed her mind. She and I had crossed swords many years before, and she saw I wasn’t going to just sit back and not respond just to keep the peace, so to keep the peace...she left me alone, and I did the same. (She has since passed on...)
But when I finished paging through the book, I unhesitatingly took it into the garage and tossed it in the trash can, I found it that offensive.
Since then, I have found out a bit more about this supposed “historian” and was astounded to discover that this book he wrote was actually being used as a textbook in history classes! That really drove home to me what a state our school systems are in...
Thank you VERY much for posting this...I listen to Rush, but was never in a position to write this URL down and always forgot...I would get home and say “What was that...the Heritage Foundation?” and I would poke around, never finding it. I am keeping the URL and will check this out!
As a mother of five children and very active in their schooling...I was appalled by what “teachers” were putting into their heads. It struck me when my oldest was being taught how “evil” Christopher Columbus was. Multiculturalism had been slipped into the curricula to demonize America and teach moral relativism, of course. The unsuspecting parents figured it was just to help outsiders fit in and become part of this great experiment.
As a young mother, I understood the damage to the child’s thinking—you can not tell a little non-reasoning child about all the “evils” of a person or country if you want them to grow up loving this country.
Yes, you can start pointing out flaws, but NOT until they can understand that no one is perfect. No culture ever survived by demonizing themselves and their heroes to small children. Marxists understand they need to get control of the minds of the children and they started distortion with that Progressive John Dewey and his powerful friends.
Well said, well said indeed, savagesusie.
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