Celebrate Kansas Day all week long at the Dole Institute! Join us Tuesday, January 20, through Sunday, February 1, for a Kansas Day-themed Discover with Dole. Discover with Dole is the Dole Institute’s interactive, kid-friendly themed program in our Museum & Galleries. All programs and events at the Dole Institute are free and open to […]
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, the Dole Institute and the Lawrence Arts Center invite you to experience Beth Lane’s award-winning documentary, UnBroken. Following the screening, Lane will join Free State Film Festival founding director Marlo Angell for a brief question-and-answer session. This […]
Dr. Colleen Shogan, former Archivist of the United States and CEO of In Pursuit, will be recognized at the eighth Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership Lecture. She'll join Dole Institute Director Audrey Coleman for a discussion on her leadership experience in the nation's leading recordkeeping and historical stewardship organizations, the role of history in civic […]
Dr. Geoff Babb from the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College will discuss Ancient Chinese War with an emphasis on the thirteen chapters of Sun Tzu’s Art of War. After a brief look at The Six Secret Teachings of Tai Kung, the presentation examines enduring phrases from each […]
Since its founding, America has been a land awash with contrasts and divisions. Are we truly a “melting pot” where one must assimilate to belong or are we more the quiver of arrows on our national seal – many people bound by a “political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism.” […]
Commemorate America at 250 with three special exhibits highlighting the Declaration of Independence, Kansas, and the last major commemoration of America’s founding. Experience these special exhibits starting Feb. 16, on display in the Elizabeth Dole Gallery & Reading Room. Declaration 1776: The Big Bang of Modern Democracy uses primary sources to illustrate how Americans and people […]
The nation enters a critical midterm election year with voters trying to come to grips with economic anxieties, international disruptions, and ongoing debates about the nation’s culture. The Wall Street Journal’s new bipartisan polling team, Democrat John Anzalone and Republican Adam Geller, will join Dole Institute Visiting Fellow Jerry Seib for their first public appearance […]
Warfare in the European Middle Ages (c. 500-1500) can be broadly characterized as limited: limited objectives, limited budgets, and limited size of armies. Despite medieval society having an overall martial culture, these factors conspired to make warfare episodic, defensively oriented, and positional in character. This lecture will explore the intellectual underpinnings of medieval limited war […]
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Civic Education Edition invites students and community members to critically engage with their own local slice of the Anthropocene by contributing their own reviews, modeled by Green’s work. Stop by the Dole Institute of Politics on March 9 anytime from 5:30-7:30 p.m. to view our America at 250 Special Exhibits and explore […]
Liberty is America’s founding ideal, bursting from our shores and spreading to nations far and near. But, our own story is rife with contradictions and presents challenges even today as we balance the desires of a changing society. How do we balance competing ideas of liberty in a pluralistic country? How can we secure this […]
The Republic of Poland’s Head of Mission to the United States, Bogdan Klich, will be in conversation with Dole Fellow and former Kosovar diplomat Qëndrim Gashi on Poland’s experience in public diplomacy with the United States and examine key aspects of U.S.-Polish bilateral cooperation. Their discussion will also offer perspectives on current U.S. foreign policy […]
The Maginot Line has assumed a mythical status as the height of French interwar doctrinal stagnation. The reality, however, is that the Maginot Line represented a potential solution to the difficult French strategic position. Dr. Cameron Zinsou of the Command and General Staff College shows how its development, manning, and the debates about the Line […]
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