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Challenges in the Indo-Pacific Region and Beyond
The United States faces growing challenges in maintaining an international order favorable to the United States. General Vincent Brooks, a now retired four-star general, believes that the quality of American foreign pol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/challenges-indo-pacific-region-and-beyondMidnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
During the last fraught months of the Civil War, the fate of the United States was far from secure. Tens of thousands of Rebel troops were still in the field, the Lincoln presidency was collapsing, and a peace movement…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/midnight-potomac-last-year-civil-war-lincoln-assassination-and-rebirth-americaBroadening the Economic Perspective on Discrimination
Aislinn Bohren, associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will examine new approaches in economics to the study of discrimination. From outlining how economics has traditionally measured discri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/broadening-economic-perspective-discriminationChildren's Literature and the Challenge of Language
How can we learn to read and write when the English language is changing so quickly? How does children's literature help us understand our place in a world of signs and symbols, of sounds and letters? How do we move bet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/childrens-literature-and-challenge-languageThe Campus and the Capitol: Higher Education and Federal Power
What do recent governmental attacks on colleges and universities say about the state of American politics? Susan McWilliams Barndt, a Podlich Distinguished Fellow in Government at CMC, will examine the Trump administrat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/campus-and-capitol-higher-education-and-federal-powerAn Evening with William Kristol
Columnist, public intellectual, host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, and founding director of Defending Democracy Together, an organization dedicated to defending America's liberal democratic norms, principles, and…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-william-kristolDark Face: The Untold History of Race, Makeup, and Hollywood
Desirée J. Garcia, professor of film and Latino studies at Dartmouth College, tells the story of the makeup artists and hairstylists who entered the Hollywood studios in the late 1960s, the moment when the Equal Employm…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dark-face-untold-history-race-makeup-and-hollywoodOne Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal
In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history—and still divide American politics. King mob…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/one-mans-freedom-goldwater-king-and-struggle-over-american-idealLin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
How did the sweet, sensitive son of Puerto Rican parents, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood on the far northern tip of Manhattan, become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century? Examining Lin-Manuel…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/lin-manuel-miranda-education-artistFrom CMC to Cancer Care: A Physicist’s Journey at the Intersection of Science and Medicine
Jessica Fagerstrom ‘06, medical physicist and educator, will discuss how physics and medicine come together to diagnose and treat cancer and will share insights of her journey from a liberal arts education to a career a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/cmc-cancer-care-physicists-journey-intersection-science-and-medicine