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Center for the American Idea - Speakers
Bradley J. Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History and Director of the American Studies Program at Hillsdale College, Michigan. He earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (1990) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington (1999). Fascinated by the intersection of myth and history, he is author of Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson (Christmas 2007), J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth (2003), co-editor of The American Democrat and Other Political Writings by James Fenimore Cooper (2000), and co-author of The American West (2002). Currently on sabbatical (2007-2008 school year), Birzer is writing an intellectual biography of American founding father, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and a comprehensive literary biography of the Inklings. Birzer is Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisors for the Center for the American Idea in Houston, as well as being a board member of Ave Maria University's Sapientia Press and of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He and his wife, Dedra, have five children: Nathaniel (8); Gretchen (6); Maria Grace (4); Harold Kenneth (2); and Cecilia Rose (born and died August 2007).
Articles:
"The Christian Gifts
of J.R.R. Tolkien"
Lectures:
Classical Republicanism: Its History and Significance
Aristotle's
Politics, Book Four
The Northwest
Ordinance
Nationalism, Republicanism,
and the American Frontier in Cooper's Vision
President
Reagan's Speech to the House of Commons, June 8, 1982
John Quincy Adams: Defender of the Republic
Orations of
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy
Adams, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1825
Republicanism in the American South
Thomas
Jefferson's Inaugural Address
The Victims of Socialism: The 20th Century Killing Fields
E.L. Godkin,
The Eclipse of Liberalism
Modernity and Gnostic Death
Tolkien's Worlds: Judeo-Christian Faerie Tales
Letters
of J.R.R. Tolkien: Milton Waldman
Letters
of J.R.R. Tolkien: Robert Murray
Letters
of J.R.R. Tolkien: Robert Murray (draft)
Letters
of J.R.R. Tolkien: Michael Straight
Letters
of J.R.R. Tolkien: Eileen Elgar
Letters
of J.R.R. Tolkien: Charlotte and Denis Plimmer
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