Category: Summer School
Come Some Music! Come the Recorders!
There is a theory among some conservatives with college-bound sons and daughters that a good education can yet be found at America’s institutions of higher learning, if a student knows where, and how, and, most importantly, for whom to look. If there is any evidence to support this theory, it is in the person of our Special Guest Lecturer at The Rockford Institute’s Thirteenth Annual Summer School this July, Professor Frank Brownlow.
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In Search of Anglo-Saxon England
The Rockford Institute is very fortunate to have man-of-letters Michael McMahon of Norwich, England, on the faculty for its Summer School this July. Chronicles readers will know Michael from his marvelous travel pieces.
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Summer School 2010: The Anglo-Saxons
Read Beowulf in the context of the people who gave birth to this first masterpiece of English, follow Bede’s brilliant account of the Church in England, and examine up-close the institutions of a free people that have set an enduring pattern for all of us who value liberty and understand that the Christian life properly lived is the greatest adventure of all. Click for details.
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The American West: Summer School 2009
Join us in Rockford, Illinois, the headquarters of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, for The Rockford Institute’s 12th Annual Summer School: “The American West.”
Theme
Robert Frost held that Americans only became American in the process of fighting wars and moving west. So much of the American identity, in fact, finds its origins in the [...]
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