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Introduction to SOURCE SOURCE (Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures) is an interactive tool in a dataset of nearly 1 million grants from over 50,000 U.S. private foundations to colleges and universities, predominantly American. Each row is a single grant: the funder, the recipient, the year, the dollar amount, the foundation’s own free-text description
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Beyond Political Thought:
Categories: UncategorizedCulturing a Love of Place and People By Aaron ZubiaMay 6, 2026 This essay is part of a symposium answering the question: “What is patriotic education?” Liberal education points students toward the love of truth. Patriotic education points students toward the love of country. We may love several aspects of both the truth and our country. We
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Educating Guardians of Liberty
Categories: UncategorizedBy Justin DyerMay 6, 2026 This essay is part of a symposium answering the question: “What is patriotic education?” Why should we be patriotic? What reason do we have to love our country? The first and primary reason to love one’s country is because it is one’s own. The love we have for our country
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Between the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission:
Categories: UncategorizedFinding a Middle Ground For a Higher Civics By Paul CarreseMay 6, 2026 This essay is part of a symposium answering the question: “What is patriotic education?” Can professors find a middle ground between negativity about all things American, and a narrow patriotism that ill suits our national spirit, with its hallmarks of discussion and
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Can Civic Thought Reach Students Alienated from Civic Life?
By Ari KohnFebruary 10, 2026 To think like a citizen is to take responsibility for a shared world. Yet for many college students today, that world no longer feels shared—nor does it seem worth taking responsibility for. Any attempt to reestablish a civic mission within the contemporary university confronts a basic condition: civics cannot find
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