Live Stream Lectures from the Statesmanship in American History Seminar, July 17-19
Posted by Gilder Lehrman Staff on Thursday, 06/15/2023
All K–12 teachers can register for free to attend via Zoom the scholar’s lectures at the Statesmanship in American History Seminar.
Each lecture will be broadcast live from the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in Princeton, NJ.
Online participants will be able to pose questions using the Q&A function. Everyone who registers will be sent a Zoom meeting link and instructions in the confirmation email. Teachers who attend full sessions will be sent PD certificates to verify their attendance.
If you have any questions, please contact education@gilderlehrman.org.
Find dates, times, lecturers, and registration links below.
Lecture Schedule
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July 17, 2023 |
“Statesmanship: What Is It?” This session addresses what the term statesmanship means and how it differs from leadership. Is statecraft a skill that can be learned, or does it require a temperament? To what sources can we point for contrasting views of statesmanship? What distinguishes the statecraft of founding, preservation, and refounding? |
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July 18, 2023 |
“John Marshall” John Marshall, “the Great Chief Justice,” still holds the record for longest service in the center chair of the Supreme Court. He is credited with securing the independence of the federal judiciary, strengthening that branch as a coequal institution of government alongside the Congress and the executive branch, and helping to firm up the supremacy of legitimate national powers in the face of challenges by the states. He is often said to have exercised a form of “judicial statesmanship.” But what were his own thoughts on the role of the judiciary and his own understanding of the nature and locus of statesmanship under our Constitution? |
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July 19, 2023
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“Abraham Lincoln” Lincoln may be the pre-eminent example of democratic statesmanship through the seven major characteristics that are hallmarks of his management of the federal government during the Civil War. He is especially an exemplar of the statesmanship of preservation. |
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July 19, 2023 |
“Frederick Douglass” This session examines excerpts from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in addition to landmark speeches in which Douglass considers whether the Constitution of the United States, and the union more generally, is pro-slavery or anti-slavery in origin and essence. The purpose is to consider how Douglass escaped slavery to become a statesman who never formally led a state, but who was nonetheless among the United States’ most influential leaders during his lifetime. |
