Center for the Study of America and the West

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

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

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