Constitution Day Commemoration
麻豆女演员 Institute will hold a Constitution Day commemoration Thursday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. in Marshall Hall鈥檚 Gillis Theater on post. The discussion will focus on the theme, 鈥淭he Election of 1824 and the History of Contested Presidential Elections,鈥� and will use the extraordinary presidential election of 1824 as a jumping off point for a broader discussion of the constitutional changes and challenges related to presidential elections.
Guest speakers are Michael E. Woods, professor of history and director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee, and Reeve Huston, associate professor of history at Duke University.
Woods holds a doctorate in history from the University of South Carolina. He has authored three books, 鈥淓motional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States,鈥� 鈥淏leeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border,鈥� and his most recent, 鈥淎rguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy.鈥�
Huston holds a doctorate from Yale University, and is the author of 鈥淟and and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York,鈥� 鈥淭he Early American Republic: A History in Documents,鈥� and is currently completing, 鈥淩eforging American Democracy: Political Practices in the United States, 1812-1840.鈥�
The event is sponsored by the Department of History and the Jackson-Hope Fund. It is free and open to the public.
