by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 26, 2022 | AmCon, Uncategorized
Of course I’ve read bits of Democracy in America from the several editions on my AmCon shelf. It was one of our original “dense facts.” Usually the sections we read highlighted American ethos: individualism, voluntary associations, etc. We used to...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 26, 2022 | AmCon, Uncategorized
We returned to The Name of War, having considered the heady arguments for a social contract and in favor of independence from England. Lepore takes us through the changing presentations of natives into the 19th century. In doing so she does not give a single, simple...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 18, 2022 | AmCon, Uncategorized
Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson: these were our conversation partners on Wednesday as we considered the thinking behind the Declaration of Independence. Although perhaps tangential, the thing that struck me about both Locke and Rousseau was their speculative imagination....
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 16, 2022 | AmCon, Uncategorized
Reading Jill LePore (always a pleasure) on King Philip’s war and the early development of American identity requires thinking again about the ways in which identity formation involves both self and other. Kasdorf’s exploration focused our attention on the...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Mar 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
This is the topic that took me away from Gertrude Sovik for a few weeks, though her life offers its own window on the topic in the 20th century. Global Lutheranism was a major focus of my previous sabbatical, so I was pleased to be able to both make use of that work...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Mar 16, 2016 | Lutheran, Uncategorized
No posts since October!! That does not mean that I’ve not been at the work of my sabbatical. (I write that with some irony, bearing in mind that the origin of the term is related to Sabbath which includes rest.) No posts rather is an indication that I have...
