I just returned from a wonderful two-week vacation. Instead
of hiking 150 miles along the John Muir Trail—like I did last summer—I decided
to do the intellectual equivalent. I enrolled in two intensive, weeklong,
master degree level, American Government and History classes at a small liberal
arts university in Ohio—Ashland University. My classes were taught by
visiting professors. I came home with 13 books and about a thousand pages of
other materials. I read much of it in preparation for the classes and during
the weeks there, and I look forward to getting through the rest of it over the
course of the next several months.
The faculty was outstanding: I took Civil War and
Reconstruction from Mackubin T. Owens, U.S. Naval War College, and Lucas Morel, Washington
and Lee University; and The American Revolution from Robert M.S. McDonald, U.S. Military Academy, and Scott Yenor, Boise State University.
I come home with a much greater appreciation and
understanding of these two significant periods in our nation’s history,
motivation to learn more, and a few ideas for the one class I teach at Snow
College—American National Government.
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