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SUMMARY:America at 250 Special Exhibits
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDeclaration 1776: The Big Bang of Modern Democracy uses primary sources to illustrate how Americans and people across the world have been inspired by the Declaration of Independence in their pursuit of equality and self-determination. This special exhibit was developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. \nSpirit of ’76 features original artifacts from the Dole Archives that highlight the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations\, which commemorated 200 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. \nKansas in 1776 provides insight into what the Kansas landscape looked like while the Founding Fathers penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776. This special exhibit was developed by Humanities Kansas. \n  \n \nThis exhibit is presented in partnership with Humanities Kansas
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/america-at-250-special-exhibits/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Maginot Line
DESCRIPTION: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 shaped and prepared French military and civilian thought in the leadup to the Second World War. \n  \n\n  \nDr. Cameron Zinsou is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. His research focuses on the intersection of occupation\, requisitions\, civil/military relations\, and citizenship in World War II France. Dr. Zinsou has a manuscript under contract with the University Press of Kansas\, Occupied: Requisitions\, Meaning\, and the French Experience during World War II. He has also featured on numerous media platforms including multiple podcasts and the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary series World War II Battles in Color and has publications in the New York Times and War on the Rocks. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-maginot-line/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260402T190000
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SUMMARY:The Effects of Federal Health Policy on Kansas
DESCRIPTION:Join the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board for the spring Student Advisory Board Program\, featuring a discussion on how the One Big Beautiful Bill’s effects on Medicaid and the new Rural Health Transformation Grant may change the healthcare landscape in Kansas. \nSAB coordinator Abbie Clements will be in conversation with Kansas health policy experts Sheena Schmidt\, senior policy analyst and strategy team leader at the Kansas Health Institute\, and David Jordan\, president and CEO of the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund\, to talk about the path forward. \n  \n\n  \nDavid Jordan is a proven leader with over 25 years of achievement in improving access to health care in Kansas and nationally.  David has served as the president and CEO of the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund (Health Fund) since 2018\, leading the statewide health foundation’s grantmaking\, external relations\, and policy and advocacy efforts. Before joining the Health Fund\, David served as the executive director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas\, a coalition of over 100 organizations working to improve health and access to health care in Kansas. David oversaw the Alliance’s operations and the effort to expand and improve KanCare\, Kansas’ Medicaid program. David joined the Alliance after spending nearly seven years at Community Catalyst\, a leading national consumer health advocacy organization.  David also oversaw the MassACT! Coalition spearheading the ballot campaign that led to Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 universal health care law. David is recognized for his expertise in health care\, early childhood and civic engagement issues and is often called upon to serve on committees and task forces\, including the Governor’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice\, the Governor’s Early Childhood Transition Task Force\, Kansas Rural Health Innovation Alliance\, Kansas Complete Count Committee\, and the Office of Early Childhood Transition Advisory Group. David holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Kansas and bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Emerson College.  He lives in Lawerence\, Kansas\, with his wife Suzanne and their two school-aged children. \nSheena L. Schmidt\, M.P.P.\, Senior Analyst & Strategy Team Leader\, leads strategic planning and programmatic activities related to access to care\, including Medicaid and other publicly funded programs\, the health care workforce and rural health issues. She has over 14 years of experience in public service at the federal\, state and local levels. At the state level\, Sheena recently served as the Director of Administrative Services for the Kansas Department for Children and Families\, where she oversaw grants and contracts for the agency\, among other key operational areas. At the local level\, Sheena was the Senior Grants Program Administrator and a Grant Writer for the City of Topeka\, where she developed strategic funding priorities which resulted in several million dollars for projects related to infrastructure and social services. She also worked at KHI as an Analyst from 2012-2016 and prior to that as an Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Washington\, D.C. Sheena earned a master’s degree in public policy with a concentration in politics and institutions from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in history and a certification in nonprofit management from Washburn University. As a lifelong Kansan\, she is invested in helping others understand how policies impact their health\, in addition to research interests related to health equity. Her personal interests include listening to podcasts and making memories traveling with her family.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-effects-of-federal-health-policy-on-kansas/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:The SAB Presents
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SUMMARY:The 2026 Easter Egg Roll with Dole
DESCRIPTION:Come one\, come all\, for the Dole Institute’s Easter Egg Roll with Dole! Join us on Saturday\, April 4\, for a morning of family fun\, including a White House-style egg roll race\, egg hunt\, games\, crafts\, and more. The event is free and open to the public\, and will go on rain or shine. \n\nLearn more about this event by visiting our website.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/eer2026/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:A Republic\, If You Can Keep It
DESCRIPTION:Ben Franklin promised us unparalleled freedom with burdens to uphold it\, never before placed upon a citizenry. What was this novel form of government bestowed on our young nation and what have we\, as a free people\, done to keep it? What burdens do we share\, what challenges do we face\, and what actions must we take to keep the American republic strong for another 250 years? \n  \n\n  \nJeff King serves as the executive vice president of the Rodel Institute\, where he founded and runs fellowships for judges of all ideological persuasions\, as well as bipartisan groups of elected officials\, to explore ways that leaders can transcend differences to promote judicial independence and cross-party dialogue. A former Kansas Senator (R) representing southeastern Kansas\, Jeff worked extensively on criminal justice issues\, pension reform\, education finance and tax policy as chair of the Senate Judiciary\, Pension\, and Rules committees. A former Tenth Circuit clerk and president of the Appellate Section of the Kansas Bar\, Jeff has handled over 60 appeals across the country on issues of school finance\, trust\, state government and constitutional law. He holds degrees from Brown University\, Yale Law School\, and the University of Cambridge. \nMark McCormick is a New York Times bestselling author with nearly 30 years of experience as a reporter\, editor\, and columnist. He most recently served as the inaugural executive director of the Kansas Black Leadership Council and deputy director of the ACLU of Kansas. He also served for a total of six years as executive director of The Kansas African American Museum. An alum of the University of Kansas\, McCormick is a trustee of the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU\, served as a professional in residence at the University of Oklahoma\, and was appointed by Governor Laura Kelly to two Kansas state commissions\, including the Kansas African American Affairs Commission. He has earned numerous awards and recognitions over his career and was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame last year.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/spring-2026-discussion-groups-series-2026-04-08/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260413T203000
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SUMMARY:Rick Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:In honor of America at 250\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson joins Dole Institute Director Audrey Coleman to discuss his career and work process\, the legacy of World War II and the historian’s craft in the 21st century\, and his new book\, The Fate of the Day\, the second of The Revolution Trilogy. \nLimited copies of The Fate of the Day will be available for purchase at the event. Rick Atkinson will also be available to sign copies of books for guests in attendance following the public program.\n  \n     \nThis program is presented in partnership with the Watkins Museum of History and the Lawrence Public Library \n  \nAbout the Dole Lecture\nHeld each spring\, the Dole Lecture commemorates the date on which Senator Bob Dole was critically wounded while serving in Italy during World War II. To honor his courageous recovery and commitment to serve the nation\, the Institute welcomes a guest who embodies the commitments that Senator Dole held throughout his career in public service. \n  \n\n  \nAbout Rick Atkinson\nRick Atkinson has authored eight narrative histories spanning five American wars. His most recent book\, The Fate of the Day: The War for America\, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston\, 1777-1780\, debuted at #1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. It joins the earlier bestseller The British Are Coming: The War for America\, Lexington to Princeton\, 1775-1777 as part of his Revolution Trilogy\, which chronicles the events that unfolded during the American Revolutionary War. \nHe previously wrote the Liberation Trilogy\, a narrative history of the Allied campaign to liberate Europe in World War II. The first volume\, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa\, 1942-1943\, received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in history. The second and third volumes in the trilogy\, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy\, 1943-1944 and The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe\, 1944-1945\, were both New York Times bestsellers\, with The Guns at Last Light reaching #1. \nAtkinson’s additional works include The Long Gray Line\, a narrative saga on the West Point Military Academy class of 1966; Crusade\, a history of the Persian Gulf War; and In the Company of Soldiers\, which chronicles Atkinson’s time embedded with the 101st Airborne Division\, led by General David H. Petraeus\, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. \nThroughout his career\, Atkinson has been honored for his work as both a historian and journalist. In addition to receiving the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in history\, he also received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting\, and was part of the Washington Post team awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service. His other honors include the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting\, the 1989 John Hancock Award for excellence in business writing\, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award\, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense\, the 2015 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award\, and the 2020 George Washington Prize for the year’s best work on the American founding era\, among others. \nAtkinson began his journalism career in 1976 writing for the Morning Sun in Pittsburg\, Kansas. He joined the Kansas City Times in 1977\, and moved to the Washington Post in 1983. During his two decades at the Post\, he served as a reporter\, foreign correspondent\, bureau chief\, assistant managing editor\, and senior editor. His reporting covered Germany and NATO\, conflicts in Somalia and Bosnia\, the 101st Airborne during the invasion of Iraq in 2003\, and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. \nBorn in Munich\, Germany\, Atkinson is the son of a U.S. Army officer and grew up on military posts. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from East Carolina University\, and a Master of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago. He and his wife\, Dr. Jane Chestnut Atkinson of Lawrence\, Kansas\, live in Washington\, D.C. \n  \n\n  \nAbout Fate of the Day\nIn the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming\, George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat. \nThe first twenty-one months of the American Revolution—which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton—was the story of a ragged group of militiamen and soldiers fighting to forge a new nation. By the winter of 1777\, the exhausted Continental Army could claim only that it had barely escaped annihilation by the world’s most formidable fighting force. \nTwo years into the war\, George III is as determined as ever to bring his rebellious colonies to heel. But the king’s task is now exponentially more complicated: fighting a determined enemy on the other side of the Atlantic has become ruinously expensive\, and spies tell him that the French and Spanish are threatening to join forces with the Americans. \nPrize-winning historian Rick Atkinson provides a riveting narrative covering the middle years of the Revolution. Stationed in Paris\, Benjamin Franklin woos the French; in Pennsylvania\, George Washington pleads with Congress to deliver the money\, men\, and materiel he needs to continue the fight. In New York\, General William Howe\, the commander of the greatest army the British have ever sent overseas\, plans a new campaign against the Americans—even as he is no longer certain that he can win this searing\, bloody war. The months and years that follow bring epic battles at Brandywine\, Saratoga\, Monmouth\, and Charleston\, an infamous winter of misery in Valley Forge\, and yet more appeals for sacrifice by every American committed to the struggle for freedom. \nTimed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolution\, Atkinson’s brilliant account of the lethal conflict between the Americans and the British offers not only deeply researched and spectacularly dramatic history\, but also a fresh perspective on the demands that a democracy makes on each of its citizens.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dolelecture2026/
LOCATION:Lied Center of Kansas\, 1600 Stewart Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dole Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Counselors: Should the United States Enact Universal Basic Income?
DESCRIPTION:The Dole Institute and the Washburn University School of Law are proud to present the spring edition of The Counselors\, featuring a debate on whether the United States should enact universal basic income. Attorneys and Dole Institute Visiting Fellows Ed Duckers and Pedro Irigonegaray will be joined by members of the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board and Washburn Law students to examine the issue along with a panel of expert witnesses. \nStudent Advisory Board member Ella Rhuems\, a senior majoring in Political Science and Psychology\, and incoming 1L at Washburn School of Law\, will moderate the debate. \n  \n\n  \nNegating side\nEd Duckers is a partner at Stoel Rives LLP\, where he leads the firm’s Litigation Practice in California and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is a past chair of Stoel Rives’ Food and Agribusiness Industry team. \nPaul Byrne is a professor of economics at Washburn University. His research focuses on public finance and public economics\, with particular focus on economic development incentives\, eminent domain\, tax increment financing\, and Medicaid expansion. \nKynsee Fennel\, 2L at Washburn University School of Law \nHarini Sreekanth\, KU senior and Student Advisory Board member\, majoring in political science and philosophy \nMichael Redlich\, KU freshman and Student Advisory Board member\, majoring in finance and political science \n  \nAffirming side\nPedro Irigonegaray is an attorney and partner at Irigonegaray\, Turney\, & Revenaugh. A trial lawyer since 1973\, Pedro is a former President of The Kansas Trial Lawyers Association\, a Fellow in The American College of Trial Lawyers\, and a Fellow in The International Academy of Trial Lawyers.  \nLinsey Moddelmog is a professor of political science at Washburn University\, where she has taught since 2009. She has done research in the area of electoral systems and representation in the U.S. and around the world. She is excited to return to the Dole Institute\, where she worked for several years while in graduate school at KU. \nRiley Keiter\, 1L at Washburn University School of Law and former Student Advisory Board member \nAva Levin\, KU sophomore and Student Advisory Board member majoring in political science and Spanish \nEstrella Hernadez\, KU senior\, majoring in philosophy and sociology.  \n  \n  \n \nThis program is presented in partnership with the Washburn University School of Law
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/thecounselors-sp26/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
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SUMMARY:The Pursuit of Happiness: Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?
DESCRIPTION:We live in a land of unprecedented wealth and success. Yet\, America is plagued with economic disparities and despair – a place where our “happiness” ranks only 24th among developed nations. Our Founding Fathers built a land of remarkable opportunity that elevated the lives of billions globally. Is the American dream alive today? What does it look like? How can we elevate it to foster happiness in generations to come? \n  \n\n  \nJeff King serves as the executive vice president of the Rodel Institute\, where he founded and runs fellowships for judges of all ideological persuasions\, as well as bipartisan groups of elected officials\, to explore ways that leaders can transcend differences to promote judicial independence and cross-party dialogue. A former Kansas Senator (R) representing southeastern Kansas\, Jeff worked extensively on criminal justice issues\, pension reform\, education finance and tax policy as chair of the Senate Judiciary\, Pension\, and Rules committees. A former Tenth Circuit clerk and president of the Appellate Section of the Kansas Bar\, Jeff has handled over 60 appeals across the country on issues of school finance\, trust\, state government and constitutional law. He holds degrees from Brown University\, Yale Law School\, and the University of Cambridge. \nMark McCormick is a New York Times bestselling author with nearly 30 years of experience as a reporter\, editor\, and columnist. He most recently served as the inaugural executive director of the Kansas Black Leadership Council and deputy director of the ACLU of Kansas. He also served for a total of six years as executive director of The Kansas African American Museum. An alum of the University of Kansas\, McCormick is a trustee of the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU\, served as a professional in residence at the University of Oklahoma\, and was appointed by Governor Laura Kelly to two Kansas state commissions\, including the Kansas African American Affairs Commission. He has earned numerous awards and recognitions over his career and was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame last year.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/spring-2026-discussion-groups-series-2026-04-29/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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