Restoring Faith in American Democracy

Restoring Faith in American Democracy

Single Ticket SLS | This course is completed

Single Session

8/19/2021 (one day)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM EDT on Th

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$20.00

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Addressing our historic ability to overcome divisions. What is different today? As we start our decade deeply divided, can we restore our belief that American democracy works, and works for everyone?

Moderator: Dr. Mary Grizzard
A former tenured professor of Latin American Studies and Art History at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Grizzard was an invited lecturer to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City. Later, she became a civilian advisor in the Department of Defense, in the Pentagon, and Professor of National Security Affairs at the National Defense University, Washington, DC. She and her husband live on a farm in Vermont.

Brinkley, Douglas

Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, CNN Presidential Historian, CBS commentator, and contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The New York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as their official Presidential Historian. Author of numerous books, including Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War; Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944, written with Ronald J. Drez; The Reagan Diaries, which Brinkley edited; The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt’s Crusade for America; American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the American Space Race.