The American Council of Trustees and Alumni and the Museum of the American Revolution celebrated our nation’s 250th anniversary year with an evening panel discussion on how to reinvigorate history and civics education in American college and university classrooms and across the public history sector. Following a keynote address by President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Richard N. Haass, panelists Dr. Michael B. Poliakoff, ACTA President and CEO; Anne D. Neal, Senior Fellow, American Council of Trustees and Alumni; and Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor in Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, joined Dr. Haass in discussing how to raise the historic and civic literacy of rising generations. The panelists all serve as members of ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education. Museum President and CEO Dr. R. Scott Stephenson will moderate the conversation and Q&A.
This event is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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