CIC and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the second annual seminar for CIC history faculty members. This year’s seminar, to be held on the Columbia University campus in New York City on June 22-27, will focus on “Political History of the Early Republic: New Challenges, Old Strengths.”
    Joyce Appleby, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, will lead the week-long seminar on the recent historiography and reinterpretation of the history of the early years of the American Republic. Up to 25 faculty members in American history and related fields at CIC member institutions will be selected to participate in the seminar.
    Participants will examine the tumultuous years of the sovereign states, the start of constitutional government, the eruption of partisan politics, and the institutionalization of a two-party system. But Appleby will take them beyond the usual American historiography sequence by including the perspective of political culture—adding rhetoric, public rites, commemorations, and the influence of the new print medium to the staples of elections, party systems, and presidential relations with Congress and the courts.
    Appleby is the author of Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, which has, since its publication in 2000, stimulated a wave of reinterpretation of the political history of the period spanning the first five presidential administrations—from Washington to Monroe—the formative period of American history. CIC President Richard Ekman said Appleby’s work has “greatly enriched our appreciation of the play of participation and power in American politics. We are fortunate to have Joyce leading this unique seminar, and we are grateful to the Gilder Lehrman Institute for partnering again with CIC to provide this opportunity for American historians.”
    Twenty-five individuals will be selected by competitive nomination; faculty members who wish to participate must be nominated by the chief academic officer of the nominee’s institution. The nomination deadline was Friday, March 7, 2003, and selected participants will be announced Friday, March 28. For more information, visit the CIC website (click here).

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