Mondays, July 11, 18, 25 | 1 – 3 PM

Instructor: James L. Walsh, PhD

This course explores the origins and purpose of government generally and the way in which the founders of the American republican experiment chose to deconstruct the various structures employed by nation states since the Classical period. In this summer series, we explore the origins of representative government, the formation of the US Constitution, and the first experiments in republican federalism. Or is that a federalist republic?

• July 11 Origins
• July 18 the Constitutional Convention
• July 25 POTUS revealed

Professor James L. Walsh has been studying and teaching American History for more than 30 years. He earned an MA and PhD in American history from the University of New Hampshire and has taught at UNH, U-Mass, Tufts, and for 23 years at New England College in Henniker. He is the author of “Satan Among the Sons of God”: The Creation of the Loyalist Enemy, 1774-1784.