LEXINGTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION- An evening with James Kloppenberg

Over three centuries, explosive ideas and practices of democracy sparked revolutions--English, American, and French--that again and again culminated in civil wars, disastrous failures of democracy that impeded further progress. James T. Kloppenberg offers a fresh look at how concepts and institutions of representative government developed and how understandings of self-rule changed over time on both sides of the Atlantic.

James T. Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard. Kloppenberg has held fellowships from the Danforth, Whiting, and Guggenheim foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In recognition of his teaching, he has been named a Harvard College Professor and awarded the Levinson Prize by the Harvard Undergraduate Council. His books deal with politics and ideas in Europe and America from the seventeenth century to the present.

This event will be held on Tuesday, September 25 at 7:00pm at the Lexington Depot. The cost of the event is $10.00.

Pre-registration is strongly recommended by contacting Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.