* NEW * REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP MEETINGS

In the April 2010, we announced the completion of a searchable index to the PDF documents of the Joint  Senate-House Republican Leadership Minutes, 1961-68. 

The Joint Senate-House Republican Leadership Minutes are the minutes of the Republican leadership during the presidential administrations of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Each session’s minutes generally include attendance, brief summaries of topics discussed, and background “fact sheets” for statements at press conferences following the meetings. These press conferences achieved fame as the “Ev and Charlie” and “Ev and Jerry” shows. For audio samples and curricular materials associated with a small sample of these minutes, please visit “The 1960s: A Multi-Media View from Capitol Hill” at http://www.dirksencenter.org/emd_audio/index.htm

Find the index to the Joint Senate-House Republican Leadership Minutes, 1961-68 at: http://www.dirksencenter.org/guides_emd/Minutes 1961-1968/index.htm 

In addition, the Gerald R. Ford Library has digitized nearly 2,000 pages of documents related to Republican congressional leadership meetings with President Richard Nixon, 1969-73.  Link to these documents at: http://www.dirksencenterprojects.org/#joint

* NEW * BOOK REVIEW: CHANGING CITIZENSHIP: DEMOCRACY AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION

Education Review publishes reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice.

Michael Ernest Sweet, Concordia University, reviewed Changing Citizenship: Democracy and Inclusion in Education, authored by Osler, Audrey & Starkey, Hugh (2005).

In Sweet’s review he states, “Schools that embrace open dialogue and outward looking cosmopolitan visions, as outlined by the authors, will, undoubtedly, journey toward a more sustainable environment for democratic education. As one concerned with citizenship and democratic education, Changing Citizenship is always on my desk. This book aptly illustrates the very reality of citizenship that transcending boarders – as a cosmopolitan vision. Changing Citizenship: Democracy and Inclusion in Education is well positioned in contemporary citizenship literature, filling most especially the obvious need for an alternative view of cosmopolitanism. Osler and Starkey’s message is poignant – citizenship has changed.”