How does West Point prepare future military leaders to understand and defend the American constitutional republic? On this episode of Higher Ed Now: Civics Edition, ACTA president Michael Poliakoff speaks with United States Military...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
Americans made it to our country’s 250th birthday without agreeing on whether the occasion calls for celebration or indictment. Some of our most influential institutions regard the Declaration of Independence as evidence for the...
ACTA president Michael Poliakoff welcomes Wilfred McClay, the Victor David Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College and a member of ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education,...
On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Proposed as a gift by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye, the statue was created to celebrate the...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
In keeping with the nation’s 250th anniversary, a new book “A Nation Born in a Day: Visions of the American Founding” brings together a collection of scholarly essays examining America’s founding and critiquing the...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
The number of civic institutes, centers, and schools at public universities has increased significantly since the first one, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University, emerged in...
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff welcomes Senior Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a member of ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education. Also a...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
Americans famously are lovers of liberty. This year we celebrate 250 years of enjoying historically unprecedented civil, economic, and religious liberty. Liberty, though, is an easily misunderstood concept, and our country’s 250th anniversary is...
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