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David Dougherty Senior Teaching Fellowship in American History
at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Josiah Bunting III (President, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.)

The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence (PDF FILE)
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
December 15, 2004

The Constitution and the Founding (PDF FILE)
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
January 12, 2005

Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War (PDF FILE)
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
December 7, 2005

Equal Rights, Laissez-Faire, and Progressivism (PDF FILE)
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
January 17, 2006

The Judicial Transformaton of America and the Clash of Orthodoxies (PDF FILE)
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
May 9, 2006

Gay Hart Gaines Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History
at Mount Vernon, Virginia

School for a Soldier: George Washington in the French and Indian War (PDF FILE)
William M. Fowler, Jr., Distinguished Professor of History, University of Notre Dame.
December 6, 2006

George Washington: Father of the American Navy (PDF FILE)
William M. Fowler, Jr., Distinguished Professor of History, University of Notre Dame.
February 19, 2007

An American Crisis: The Newburgh Address (PDF FILE)
William M. Fowler, Jr., Distinguished Professor of History, University of Notre Dame.
July 20, 2006

Richard Gilder Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History
at the New-York Historical Society, New York

How Historians Get It Wrong: The American Constitution
Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor Emeritus
at Harvard University.
February 8, 2007.

My Enemies are Crushed
James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History, Emeritus,
at Princeton University.
March 13, 2007.

Ending Tyranny: The History of an Idea.
John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History
at Yale University.
April 26, 2007