This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and the sesquicentennial of the death of Alexis de Tocqueville.  Lincoln’s statesmanship and Tocqueville’s Democracy in America display profound—albeit somewhat different—understandings of America.

This first CCA of the 2009-2010 academic year will consider the lives and political thought of these two great expositors of American democracy.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

8:00 p.m. “Lincoln and Tocqueville on Liberty and Equality”
               Glen Thurow
               University of Dallas

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

4:00 p.m. “Tocqueville’s Democracy in America:  An Overview”
               James Schleifer
               College of New Rochelle

8:00 p.m. “Abraham Lincoln:  A Presidential Life”
               James McPherson
               Princeton University

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

4:00 p.m. “The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Graphic Arts”
               Harold Holzer
               Metropolitan Museum of Art

8:00 p.m. “What Would Tocqueville Say About America Today?”
               James W. Ceaser
               University of Virginia

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

4:00 p.m. “Tocqueville, Bureaucracy, and the Idea of Transnationalism”
               Larry Siedentop
               Keble College, Oxford University

8:00 p.m. “Lincoln’s Constitutionalism”
               Allen C. Guelzo
               Gettysburg College

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

11:00 a.m. Faculty Roundtable

All Speakers Confirmed