The liberal arts & China
Woods College of Advancing Studies Assistant Dean You Guo Jiang, SJ, is the author of Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014). This work provides a unique focus on the re-emergence of liberal arts education in China. Through the extensive use of first hand materials relating to the liberal arts and current viewpoints of Chinese scholars and higher education leaders, Fr. Jiang concludes that China must implement a good liberal arts education program to form responsible global citizens. Learn more via an interview with Fr. Jiang by Nina Bogdanovsky of Boston College Libraries.
Lincoln & the 13th Ammendment
This weekend marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. In his new book, Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), Boston College alumnus Christian G. Samito examines how Lincoln’s opposition to amending the United States Constitution shaped his political views before he became president, and how constitutional arguments overcame Lincoln’s objections, turning him into a supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment by 1864. Well into his presidency, Lincoln argued that emancipation should take place only on the state level because the federal government had no jurisdiction to control slavery in the states. Between January 1863 and mid-1864, however, Lincoln came to support a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery because it worked within the constitutional structure and preserved key components of American constitutionalism in the face of Radical Republican schemes. Samito’s previous publications include Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era. Read the introduction to Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, constitution, History Department
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