Center for the Study of America and the West

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FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West has established itself as an influential program, affecting both the state of scholarly discourse and the teaching of history in the classroom. Founded in 1997, the Center builds upon FPRI’s successful History Institute. Together they relate the teaching of history to issues of American and Western identity, combining high levels of scholarship with a method to introduce that scholarship into the classroom at the secondary and university levels.

Scholars

• Walter McDougall, chair
• D. G. Hart
• James Kurth
• Michael Noonan, InterUniversity Study Group chair

From the West Study Group

• Confronting A Powerful China With Western Characteristics, James Kurth, Orbis Winter 2012
• To Survive, Decentralize!: The Barbarian Threat And State Decentralization, Jakub Grygiel, Orbis Fall 2011
• The Rise Of Policy Institutes In The United States, 1943-1971, Bruce Kuklick, Orbis Fall 2011
• Can We Win A War If We Have To Fight By Cosmopolitan Rules?, Jeremy Rabkin, Orbis Fall 2011
• The Soldier, The State, And The Clash Of Civilizations: The Legacy Of Samuel Huntington, James Kurth, Orbis Sprimg 2010

Publications

The Center publishes articles on issues relating to Western identity. Recent books by its fellows include

Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829–1877

By Walter A. McDougall (Harper Collins, 2008)

Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500

By Jeremy Black (Routledge, 2007)

Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance

edited by Harvey Sicherman and William Anthony Hay (U. Missouri Press, 2007)

See also

• Templeton Lectures in Religion and World Affairs
• Robert Carr Lecture on Western Civilization
• Program on Teaching Innovation
• Program on Teaching Military History

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