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Civic Action

Youth Insights for Building a Collective Civic Identity

What Every American Should Know (WEASK), an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Citizenship and American Identity (CAI) was sta

BY Citizenship and American Identity Program

Blog Post

11.13.2019
Around the Institute

Thwarting Tyranny through Shakespeare

Society of Fellows members discussed lessons from the Bard and lots more at their February symposium.

BY Catherine Lutz

Blog Post

03.01.2019
Arts

The Bauhaus Roots of Aspen

Tour through the Institute's Aspen, CO campus to learn how the Bauhaus movement shaped Aspen.

BY Marci Krivonen

Podcast

01.31.2019
Civic Action

Memorializing Victims of Gun Violence

Architect and activist Michael Murphy discusses the best way to build something that honors the fallen.

BY Ben Berliner

Blog Post

11.08.2018
US Government

These 5 Qualities Make Good Leaders

Doris Kearns Goodwin outlines what made Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson effective.

BY Ben Berliner

Blog Post

10.26.2018
Culture

Hidden Stories from the American West

This episode of Aspen Insight breaks down myths from the Old West.

BY Marci Krivonen

Podcast

09.27.2018
Civic Action

Forming Better Arguments

Good arguments are essential to American civic life.

BY Roger Brooks

Blog Post

05.16.2018
Identity and Equity

The Artists Who Shaped US Identity

Their works taught us who to be.

BY Kimber Craine

Blog Post

03.30.2018
Civic Action

How the Erie Canal Explains American Democracy

Originally written off as an absurd public works project, the canal set the standard for US infrastructure.

BY Kimber Craine

Blog Post

02.15.2018
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