Hillsdale College Hosts Third CCA Seminar of 2019-20 Academic Year
Hillsdale, Mich – On January 26–29, Hillsdale College will host a Center for Constructive Alternatives (CCA) seminar entitled, “American Generals: Military Command and Character.” This third CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year will consider the lives and characters of some of America’s greatest generals.
Hillsdale College’s CCA is the sponsor of one of the largest college lecture series in America. Since the series began in 1972, more than 1,300 speakers have participated, including Ronald Reagan, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Steve Forbes, Kimberley Strassel, and Stephen Ambrose. Click here to visit the CCA website.
All CCA lectures are free and open to the media. All times listed are Eastern.
WHEN: Sunday, January 26, 2020
4:00 p.m. – Bradley J. Birzer: “The Character of General Jackson”
8:00 p.m. – Nathaniel Philbrick: “The Genius of General Washington”
Monday, January 27, 2020
4:00 p.m. – Ronald C. White: “Grant as General”
8:00 p.m. – Allen C. Guelzo: “Lee: Life and Legend”
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
4:00 p.m. – Arthur Herman: Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior”
8:00 p.m. – Victor Davis Hanson: “George S. Patton: American Ajax”
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
4:00 p.m. – Faculty Roundtable
Mark A. Kalthoff, Chairman
Thomas H. Conner
Peter Jennings
James Strasburg
WHERE: Searle Center
315 N. West Street
Hillsdale, MI 49242
WHO: Bradley J. Birzer, Author, In Defense of Andrew Jackson
Nathaniel Philbrick, Author, In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Ronald C. White, Author, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Allen C. Guelzo, Author, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Arthur Herman, Author, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Victor Davis Hanson, Author, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won