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  • headshot of AB Culvahouse
    Ambassador A.B. Culvahouse Speaks at Cumberland University CommencementMay 15, 2025
  • Pictured: Junior Group Documentary IAC Special Award recipients from Pleasant View School (Shelby County, TN): Adam Esmail, Aiman Arafat, Aisa Mustafic, and Hamza Mustafic.
    The Institute of American Civics Inspires 59 Students to Explore Civil Liberties During Annual Tennessee History Day CompetitionMay 12, 2025
  • Josh Dunn, IAC Director, speaking at a Baker School Event.
    Dunn Appointed to the National Commission on American History and Civic EducationNovember 12, 2024
  • Constitution Day with Yale Professor of Law Keith WhittingtonSeptember 25, 2024
  • Susan Moriarty speaking at the Youth in Government Conference in Nashville in Spring 2024
    The Baker School and IAC’s mission goes hand in hand with Tennessee’s Youth in Government Programs September 13, 2024
  • Keith Whittington
    Institute of American Civics To Host Yale Law Professor Keith Whittington for Constitution Day Lecture September 11, 2024
  • Vols Vote
    The University of Tennessee and University of Florida to square off in Voter Engagement Challenge August 26, 2024
  • IAC’s Weaver selected to participate in Clemson University’s Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholar Program August 22, 2024
  • Baker School and IAC Announces Slate of Fall Events August 16, 2024
  • TN Flag and State Capital
    UT’s Institute of American Civics Survey Shows Urgent Need for Civics Education in TennesseeAugust 7, 2024
  • Front of the Baker School Building
    The Baker School and IAC Welcomes Ten New Faculty August 2, 2024
  • High School students participate in a mock trial as part of the IAC Internship Program.
    Fifteen High School Students Intern with UT’s Institute of American Civics July 11, 2024
  • Audience at the TN Civics Academy at the Baker School at the University of Tennessee
    NEARLY 80 TEACHERS FROM ACROSS TENNESSEE VISIT THE BAKER SCHOOL FOR TENNESSEE CIVICS ACADEMY July 2, 2024
  • Kaylee McGhee White, David Leonhardt, and Michael Strain on stage at the Steamboat Debate.
    Institute of American Civics Debate – Is the American Dream Dying?April 2, 2024
  • A photo of the US Constitution
    Institute of American Civics Announces Constitution Day EventsSeptember 13, 2023
  • TLIP Students
    TN Legislative Internship Program Applications Now OpenAugust 31, 2023
  • A painting of George, Washington, by James Reid Lambdin, after John Trumbull, 1854, Gift of James Reid Lambdin, 1872. Photograph compliments of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and George Washington's Mount Vernon.
    Cato: George Washington’s Valley Forge PlayAugust 16, 2023
  • Photo of Danielle Allen
    The Declaration of Independence Today: Why an Old Text Still Serves Us NowAugust 16, 2023
  • Civics Academy photo
    Institute of American Civics to Host Inaugural TN Civics Academy June 21-22June 20, 2023
  • A photo of Michele Moody-Adams
    Institute of American Civics Sponsors Leadership Knoxville Luncheon Keynote Address with Michele Moody-AdamsMay 10, 2023
  • Logo for Listen. Learn. Lead. Week
    Braver Angels Collegiate Debate: Should Assault Weapons Be Banned?March 27, 2023
  • Photos of Paul Ryan and Heidi Heitkamp
    Are Our Differences of Political Opinion Still Making Us Stronger?October 6, 2022
  • A photo of Why Vote? panelists
    Public Square Series: “Why Vote?” Panel Discussion with Local LeadersSeptember 9, 2022
  • Jeffrey Rosen
    Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “The Right to Vote” with Jeffrey RosenSeptember 9, 2022
  • Constitutional Conversation Faculty
    Baker Center Hosts Second Event in its Constitutional Conversations SeriesSeptember 1, 2022

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