September 10, 2006
For planning purposes
What: John Locke Foundation Headliner Luncheon
When: Noon Monday, September 18, 2006
Where: The Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel
1707 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC
(Directions are available at www.JohnLocke.org/events.)
Price: $25
Who: In emphasizing how history nurtures a national culture, historian Wilfred M. McClay has revealed that American patriotism cannot be pinned down to any one definition or source. American character and patriotism are products of the genius of federalism and are rooted in everyday practicalities.
Maybe more than ever, Americans now debate what it means to be patriotic. Because they’ve forgotten their past, many innovative and forward-looking Americans lack a historical consciousness that can provide a definition.
Professor McClay is the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He’s author of the award-winning The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America.
Join Professor McClay and the John Locke Foundation for an insightful discussion of the complex roots of American patriotism.
Contact JLF Communications Director Mitch Kokai at 919-828-3876, 919-306-8736, or [email protected] for more information.