David Sehat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Nationally recognized author and historian Dr. David Sehat will discuss “The Republican Party: From Reagan to Trump” as part of Tarleton State University’s third State of the American Society speaker series on Thursday, March 30.
The series brings leading scholars and Texas policymakers to Stephenville to discuss current U.S. events and critical issues. The free, public talk begins at 4:30 p.m. in room 118 of the O.A. Grant Humanities Building. A book signing and chance to meet the speaker one-on-one follows the discussion.
A history professor at Georgia State University, Sehat will take an in-depth look at the evolution of the Republican Party from the election of Ronald Regan in 1980 to the present term of Donald Trump.
Sehat is author of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible (Simon and Schuster, 2015) and The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford, 2011), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.
Prior to arriving at Georgia State, Sehat completed his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and spent a postdoctoral year at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a visiting scholar. During the 2017-18 academic year, he will be the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government of Oxford.
The event is sponsored by Tarleton’s College of Liberal and Fine Arts and its Department of Social Sciences.
For more information on the Department of Social Sciences, visit www.tarleton.edu/socialsciences. For a map of the Stephenville campus, including visitor parking, go to www.tarleton.edu/campus.
Tarleton, a member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow’s professional leaders. With campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.
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Contact:
Dr. Michael Landis, Assistant Professor of History
254-968-9027
[email protected]
