Filled with Falsehoods and Errors: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the Battle Over Freedom of the Press -- Then and Now

 

Monday, April 4, 2022 at 7 p.m.

Schar College of Education Room 138, Ronk Lecture Hall

Ever since the Founding Era, Americans have been debating the problem of disinformation in a country committed to freedom of the press. This event will bring an historic perspective to "Truth in the Age of Disinformation" by discussing the ways in which the contentious political atmosphere of the 1790's led to one of the most acrimonious elections in our history, as well as a controversial 1798 law that made it illegal to criticize the federal government. 

Robert M.S. McDonald is a professor of History at the United States Military Academy. He is the author of Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time (University of Virgina Press, 2016)

Co-Sponsored by the Ashbrook Center

The Truth-Telling Project and the Violence of Institutional Racism

 

Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 7 p.m.

Dauch College of Business Room 105

Since its inception in 2014 after the Michael Brown shooting in the St. Louis area, the Truth-Telling Project has engaged communities in thoughtful and empathetic responses to the problems of racism and violence in our society. For this event we will have a member of this organization share their commitment to structural change, truth-telling and healing in our society. 

Dr. David Ragland in one of the co-founders and co-executive director of the Truth Telling Project and the director of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign. Ragland is a writer, scholar and activist. Ragland recently published a series on reparations in Yes magazine. He currently teaches In-Depth Psychology, Eco-Psychology and Community Liberation at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Ragland Co-Founded the Truth Telling Project so that marginalized voices could be heard and move society to lay a groundwork for healing, reconciliation and social transformation. Georgetown University's Advocacy lan included Ragland's research as the "most important research on advocacy" in the last forty years. Ragland was recently inducted into the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. In the past, Ragland served as the Senior Bayard Rustin Fellow at the Fellowship of Reconciliation, board member for the Peace and Justice Studies Association and was the United Nations representative for the International Peach Research Association. 

Co-Sponsored by the Ashland Center for Nonviolence