Special “After Dinner Scholar” Mini-Series Launched in Honor of America’s 250th

In nine weeks, we will celebrate America’s Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. In honor of that event and in order to think more carefully about this our “experiment in ordered liberty” two and a half centuries later, Wyoming Catholic College is launching a special, ten-episode mini-series of the After-Dinner Scholar Podcast on the American founding.

In our first episode, Dr. Glenn Arbery, Dr. Michael Wilmer, and Dr. Jim Tonkowich explored some of the history that took place in the fifteen months between April 1775’s “shot heard around the world” and the day on which the Declaration was signed in July 1776.

In the following episode, Dr. Tonkowich interviewed Hillsdale College professor Dr. Matthew Spalding about his new book, The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence, in which he writes that “We must know the Declaration if we truly are to love America.” Over the course of the discussion, Dr. Spalding explained how that’s the case and how the Declaration expresses the American mind.

Future episodes will be released on the Thursday of each week leading up to the Semiquincentennial, starting with next week’s episode on “The Catholic Roots of American Independence.” Listen along, and enjoy!