Fellows’ Forum - Thinking Historically about Civic Education: Teaching and Learning the Declaration of Independence in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States

11 February 11:30
Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UB

Claire Arcenas (University of Montana)

This presentation draws from Claire Arcenas’ broader research project on the history of civic education in the United States. This project investigates how, across the past 250 years, Americans have engaged with the Declaration of Independence in both formal and informal educational settings. The focus of the forum is the centrality of the Declaration in late-nineteenth-century political science and history curricula, using Francis Lieber and his Columbia College students as a case study. This discussion will address a set of pressing questions about the relationship between liberal and civic education and a flourishing democracy in the United States.
 

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Frederick Girsch at the American bank note company for the bureau of engraving and printing. Public domain via Wikimedia commons. Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BEP-GIRSCH-Declaration_of_Independence_(Trumbull).jpg

 

 

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