CCA IV: Churchill and the Movies
This fourth and final CCA of the 2018-19 academic year will explore two films widely regarded as Churchill’s favorites and two Churchill biopics in their historical context.
This fourth and final CCA of the 2018-19 academic year will explore two films widely regarded as Churchill’s favorites and two Churchill biopics in their historical context.
Rising high school sophomores, juniors, seniors, and college freshmen are invited to explore enduring truths about the human condition in English literature and to experience first-hand the historical, geographical, and cultural context of these works by touring England.
Rising high school sophomores, juniors, seniors, and college freshmen are invited to travel to England and France to study the leadership of Winston Churchill and to learn about the valor of the “citizen soldiers” of the Second World War.
Since the Communist Revolution of 1949, China has emerged as a world power that poses a threat to the West. This first CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year will consider the history, culture, and challenge of China.
The idea of socialism is ancient. Organized socialist movements took form in Europe in the nineteenth century, and socialism emerged as a dominant political ideology in many places around the world by the twentieth century. This second CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will consider socialism, its practice over time, and its resurgence today.
Stadium Roller Rink
Searle Center
Hillsdale College Freedom Forums provide two days of thought-provoking discussion organized around six lectures by three of Hillsdale's finest professors. Guests will delve deeply into the meaning of freedom from an interdisciplinary perspective by examining the Constitution, the free market theory, and the literature of freedom. Event Details Location: YO Ranch Hotel and Conference Center, […]
Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing, capable of both caution and surprise, lavish and rapacious, generous and mean, skillful in defense and attack.” This third CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year will consider the lives and characters of some of America’s greatest generals.