PRESS RELEASE -- September 18, 2008
MVNU welcomes political expert to celebrate Constitution Day
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- Professor Christopher Burkett will deliver a lecture titled “The Picture of Silver and the Apple of Gold” at Mount Vernon Nazarene University on Thursday, Sept. 18.
The lecture, which will begin at 7 p.m. in the Thorne Performance Hall, is free and open to the public.
Burkett’s visit is the second event of MVNU’s 2008-09 Lecture/Artist Series.
Burkett is assistant professor of political science at Ashland University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on American political thought and institutions. He has been a visiting instructor for the Bill of Rights Institute and for the Congressional and Presidential Academies in Washington, D.C.
Professor Burkett has recently authored several online lesson plans on the American Founding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and contributed a chapter on American foreign policy in the book Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding.
Constitution Day is an American federal holiday that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution. It is observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. The law establishing the holiday was created in 2004. Before this law was enacted, the holiday was known as “Citizenship Day.”
For more information, call (740) 397-9000, ext. 4341, or visit www.mvnu.edu/lectureartist.
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