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The Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University is hosting the conference “Thomas Jefferson and His Contemporaries: Rival Views of the Founding."

Includes 3 panel discussions and the keynote speaker is Dr. Peter Onuf.

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An email providing the schedule of events for the conference. Ross Douthat, Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times will present the keynote address titled "​The Crisis of American Christianity."

An email announcing a presentation called "Me, Myself and Rousseau: The New American Spirituality and Its Origin" by Laurence D. Cooper.

Details that Robert Colby, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for American Studies and visiting assistant professor, earned two significant awards for his dissertation about the domestic slave trade during the Civil War.

Announces that the co-director of the Center for American Studies, Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch, has been appointed to serve on the US Semiquincentennial Commission, also known as America250.

Details the talk given by FBI Director Christopher Wray at the Homeland Security Symposium & Expo, co-hosted by the Center for American Studies.

Announces that Dr. Nathan Busch, Distinguished Professor of political science, co-director of CNU's Center for American Studies, and director of the minor in US National Security Studies, will be the inaugural holder of the Crawford Professorship.

An email announcing a panel discussion on the rise of the terrorist group ISIS on January 27, 2015. Includes information on the panel members.

An email announcing that Dr. Aristide Tessitore, Professor of Political Science at Furman University will present “Alexis de Tocqueville on America’s Uncertain Future.”