The 2016 Constitution Day Lecture at UTC will be held Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the UC Auditorium. The speaker will be Dr. Richard Gamble of Hillsdale College.
Dr. Gamble is a professor of History and holds the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in History
and Politics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mi. His publications include The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation (ISI Books, 2003), the chapter on World War I for the Cambridge History of Religions in America (Cambridge UP, 2012), In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth (Continuum, 2012), and a history of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” forthcoming from Cornell University Press in the new Religion and American Life series. Professor Gamble also edited The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being (ISI Books, 2009).
He received his PhD from the University of South Carolina. He is currently at work on the first intellectual and religious biography of Julia Ward Howe. His courses, essays, and reviews focus on the history of American civil religion and the long argument over the American identity.
The topic of his evening lecture is “The Constitution and Liberal Education.”