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

Josiah Bunting III, President, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Abraham Lincoln's Emotional Life (PDF FILE)
Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield
2008

Some lessons that Abraham Lincoln's life holds for the early twenty-first century (PDF FILE)
Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield
2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Command of Our Own Fortunes
Three Lectures on the Statesmanship of George Washington
Matthew Spalding
Mount Vernon Ladies Association
2010

Lecture One
Washington as Founder: "I walk on untrodden ground" (PDF FILE)
September 15, 2010

Lecture Two
Washington as Lawmaker: "We have a character to establish" (PDF FILE)
October 20, 2010

Lecture Three
Washington as Statesman: "Counsels of an old and affectionate friend" (PDF FILE)
October 20, 2010

Establishing a National Republic Lecture Series
Ken Jowitt, Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
2009

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Lecture One
"George Washington: From Virginian to American"

Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes

Lecture Two
"Washington D.C.: New Captial, New Indentity"

Duration: 55 minutes

The Hidden Genius of George Washington Lecture Series
Harlow Giles Unger, Former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at George Washington's Mount Vernon
2008

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Lecture One
"George Washington: Scholar and Intellect"

Duration: 55 minutes

Lecture Two
"Washington as Statesman"

Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes

Lecture Three
"Washington as Visionary"

Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes

George Washington: Politician (PDF FILE)
Joanne B. Freeman, Professor, Yale University.
November 2007

Washington as President (PDF FILE)
Joanne B. Freeman, Professor, Yale University.
October 18, 2007

Learning to Think Nationally: The Realities and Challenges of Washington’s World (PDF FILE)
Joanne B. Freeman, Professor, Yale University.
July 2007

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

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

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

Three Soldiers and American Ways of War - Marshall
Josiah Bunting III, President, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
June 10, 2008

Three Soldiers and American Ways of War - Grant
Josiah Bunting III, President, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
April 8, 2008

Three Soldiers and American Ways of War - Washington
Josiah Bunting III, President, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
February 5, 2008

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

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

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

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