Don’t Know Much About the Constitution: Teaching and Talking about the Supreme Law of the Land, the Presidency, and Civic Engagement

Don’t Know Much About the Constitution: Teaching and Talking about the Supreme Law of the Land, the Presidency, and Civic Engagement

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  2. Don’t Know Much About the Constitution: Teaching and Talking about the Supreme Law of the Land, the Presidency, and Civic Engagement
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Sep 8, 2020 12:00 PM -
Sep 8, 2020 1:00 PM

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It is an election year and the way the nation goes about choosing a Chief Executive this year is already unlike any before given the pandemic and how social distancing has impacted primaries, nominating conventions, campaigning, debates, and more. In-person voting is a large question mark.

Surely the Framers did not envision a balloting process that looks like what we have –even before the Covid crisis. What did they have in mind more than 230 years ago?

This webinar will explore the history of the presidency and the process created in 1787 by the Framers of the Constitution to choose that person.

Questions from event participants are encouraged.

Presenter
author photo credit: Nina Subin

Kenneth C. Davis

Kenneth C. Davis is the New York Times–bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About® History, which gave rise to the “Don’t Know Much About®” series of books, and America’s Hidden History. In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents and Five Black Lives earned him a Notable Book of the American Library Association in 2017. His most recent book, More Deadly Than War about the 1918 Spanish flu was also named a Notable Trade Book for Young People by the Children’s Book Council and National Council for the Social Studies. His forthcoming book, Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy, will be published on October 6,2020. He lives in New York City and can be found on Twitter @kennethcdavis and at his website, dontknowmuch.com.

Moderator

Stefanie Wager

NCSS President 2020-2021

Stefanie is the Social Studies Consultant for the Iowa Department of Education. In this role, she provides leadership and guidance at the state level for social studies education. Prior to this, she taught high school social studies for Des Moines Public Schools and Dallas Center-Grimes Schools and worked at Instituto Thomas Jefferson in Naucalpan, Mexico. In addition, she formerly served as the coordinator of a Teaching American History Grant. She received both a Bachelors and Masters degree from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. Stefanie has been involved in the Iowa Council for the Social Studies since 2010, first serving as co-chair for the Annual Conference, then Vice-President, and now President. She is also currently serving on the National Council for the Social Studies Board of Directors. In that capacity Stefanie has worked on the Strategic Plan Committee, Executive Director Search Committee and the Associated Group Ad-Hoc Committee, among others. She is also a member of CS4. In 2011, Stefanie was named an Emerging Leader in Education by ASCD. Stefanie lives in Grimes, IA with her husband Jake, who is also a social studies teacher, and their two children, Lincoln and Grace.