| Welcome back to our weekly newsletter, which features the best curated content on civics education each week at RealClear’s American Civics portal. This week’s newsletter begins with a piece at National Review by Thomas Kelly, the Vice President of Civics Initiatives at the Jack Miller Center. Kelly argues that though the state of civics knowledge and instruction is lamentable across the United States as a whole, there are nevertheless positive signs at some civics institutions at our nations college and universities that need to be promoted and expanded. At JMC’s American Arc blog, Elliott Drago interviews two JMC faculty partners, John Ragosta and Jeff Bloodworth. Ragosta discusses his new book, “For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle,” noting that Henry teaches an important lesson for us today regarding American self-government: the losers in elections need to respect the winners. “If the losers forget that their job as American citizens is to live under the government that they did not vote for,” Ragosta notes that “the country won’t work.” Bloodworth, Professor of History and Program Director of Public Service and Global Affairs at Gannon University, talks about his recent book, “Losing the Center: The Decline of American Liberalism, 1968-1992.” Bloodworth urges students who are interested in studying U.S. history that rather than strictly looking for heroes or villains, they need to instead “look for humans who are doing their best to achieve their ideals in a fallen and complicated world.” Essential Reading Hans Zeiger, Washington Examiner Politics is more polarized than it has been in a generation. With an acrimonious presidential election looming... Allen C. Guelzo, City Journal "I know the American People are much attached to their Government," Abraham Lincoln said in his Lyceum... In the News Matthew Spalding, Washington Examiner Jessica Garcia, Nevada Appeal Max Eden, AEI Mary Ellen McIntire, Roll Call Ray Hardman, NPR James Pinkerton, Constituting America Elliott Drago, Jack Miller Center Yuval Levin, Law & Liberty Ron Meier, Constituting America Ruth Ward, Eagle Times Ryan Walters, The Hill Christopher Klein, History.com Elliott Drago, Jack Miller Center Kevin Frazier, Buffalo News Andrew Busch, Public Discourse Civics 101 What are presidential records? And to whom do they belong? Every president generates millions of records in... PragerU When James Buchanan--America's 15th president--took office, the country was ready to explode over the issue... Learning Curve This week on The Learning Curve, guest cohosts Derrell Bradford and Alisha Searcy interview professor Manisha Sinha... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories Good morning, it's Friday, August 4, the day of the week when I pass along quotations intended to be inspiring ... In late spring or early summer, several years after World War II finally came to an end with the aid ... It's Friday, July 7, the day of the week I pass along quotations relating to American political life -- lines ... | 
