On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff speaks with Michael Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Professor Auslin...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
In a desperate effort to defend a key stronghold from advancing British troops, the Continental Army dug in at Philadelphia’s Fort Mifflin in September 1777. What followed was among the most brutal sieges of...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
June 6, 2026: It’s the 82nd anniversary of D-Day in Normandy — the largest amphibious invasion in recorded history, when five divisions stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, and 73,000 U.S. troops joined tens of thousands of allied forces to...
Eighty-two years ago, on June 6, 1944, the Allied Expeditionary Forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in what would be “the largest amphibious invasion in military history.” Known as Operation Overlord, or D-Day, the invasion was the opening act to a colossal campaign...
For Walt Whitman, late spring was more than just a season. It symbolized growth, possibility, and democratic renewal. As June begins, it is worth returning to a poet whose work sought the spirit of the United...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
The University of Pennsylvania’s “America 250” courses celebrating the country’s semiquincentennial have little […]
A symbiotic relationship exists between the stories a nation tells and its civic identity. Popular culture is never neutral; it reflects the assumptions, priorities, and perspectives of its time. As those stories circulate, they...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
Near my home in Wisconsin is a yellow barn with a smiling face painted on it. I drive past it often, and it reminds me to be optimistic. Despite recent studies, I am still upbeat about America —...
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