The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind

ISBN-13: 9781107443884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 251 str.

George Thomas

Opis

This book examines the ideas of the Founders with regard to establishing a national university.

Recenzje

'Thomas challenges scholars not only to think deeply about civic education's historically uncertain place in American constitutionalism, but also the implications of that history for the present moment.' Journal of the Early Republic

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The national-university vision and American constitutionalism; 2. The national university and constitutional limits; 3. The national university and state institutions; 4. Constituting the university; 5. Education, the national university, and constituting national identity; 6. The civic dimensions of American constitutionalism; Conclusion: the Constitution and the American mind.