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Download full textGuelzo, Allen – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2020
Why do we teach U.S. history and government to students? The answer is simple: to prepare students for engaged and informed citizenry, the essential ingredient for preserving the American republic. Unfortunately, ACTA's most recent "What Will They Learn?"® survey of the core curricula at over 1,100 colleges and universities found that…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Higher Education, Governance
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Direct linkO'Gorman, Ned – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
This essay presents Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential rhetoric as an iteration of an American synecdochal sublime. Eisenhower's rhetoric sought to re-aim civic sight beyond corporeal objects to the nation's transcendental essence. This rhetoric is intimately connected to prevailing political anxieties and exigencies, especially the problem of…
Descriptors: United States History, Weapons, Rhetoric, War
