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The Center for the American Idea presents...
The Roots of American Order
A FREE workshop for middle and high school History and Government teachers.
Topics:
• Introduction to the Roots of American Order
• Jerusalem: Order of the Heart
• Athens: Order of the Mind
• Rome: Republic of Virtue, Empire of Decadence
• London: The Poetry of Shopkeeping
• Philadelphia: Seedtime of the Republic
Looking for one book to put the American experience in world-historical perspective?
That one book with such interesting insights it would renew your enthusiasm for the past, rejunenate your teaching, and spark a love for American history in your students? Russell Kirk’s masterpiece, The Roots of American Order, is one of the most sigificant and enduring histories of the United States ever written. For a quarter of a century now, this book has helped readers understand what it is to be American, and what it means to live in “ordered freedom.”
The Roots of American Order is not traditional textbook, but is packed with fascination stories and insights about the distant origins of our American way of life. Kirk imaginatively presents the material by taking readers on a “tour” of such great cities as Jerslem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. By the last page, you will better see what Cicero, Diocletian, Moses, Socrates, St. Sugustine, and Martin Luther have to do with American history, and be introduced to Americans that many traditional textbooks overlook. (For example, Orestes Brownson’s most famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” was picked up---but not attributed--- by John F. Kennedy in his first inaugural address.)
All various ways of ordering our lives---moral, intellectual, poltical, economic---came together in a wonderful way in the founding of America. Kirk’s thesis, simply put, is that it is these many different orders that make American freedom possible---our ordered freedom
SpeakersGleaves Whitney has been Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal since 1995. He has been Senior Scholar at the Center for the American Idea since 1998. He received his postgraduate education at the University of Michigan, where he was a Richard M. Weaver Fellow (1987-1988) and an H. B. Earhart Fellow (1988-1991). He is the chief historian for Michigan Governor John Engler. Mr. Whitney is the author of Colorado Front Range, has contributed to four other books, and has written for numerous publications.
Bradley Birzer is an assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Birzer has been a visiting professor in western American and Indian History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his Ph.D. in United States History from Indiana University, with a minor in Latin American History. He received his B.A. in European and U.S. History from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. in Western American History from Utah State University. Dr. Birzer is a Senior Fellow with the Center for the American Idea.
Important Details:
There is no charge to attend American Idea Workshops.
Continental breakfast and lunch included.
TEKS information and useful handouts on subjects presented will be available.
Books will be available for purchase at reduced cost. MasterCard, Visa, Cash & Checks accepted.
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