Mon 11 Aug

Jay Cost Residency: The Founding in Perspective — George Washington

Jay Cost , Ph.D. The central figure in the American Founding, nobody was more important in crafting the new nation. And yet Washington's great ambition, political unity in a shared pur... Read More »
Tue 12 Aug

Jay Cost Residency: The Founding in Perspective — John and Abigail Adams

Jay Cost , Ph.D. Nobody played a bigger role than John Adams during the early days of the Revolution, but by the 1780s he had become a man out-of-step with the times. Accused of having... Read More »
Wed 13 Aug

Jay Cost Residency: The Founding in Perspective — Alexander Hamilton

Jay Cost , Ph.D. Jefferson famously called Hamilton, "a host unto himself." Truer words have rarely been spoken, for Hamilton combined a towering intellect, a bold vision of the countr... Read More »

Advancing Community Progress in Erie, Pennsylvania

The Jefferson Educational Society (JES) of Erie is a nonprofit institution where conversations commence and ideas take action. We were founded to promote civic enlightenment and community progress for the Erie Region through the study, research, and discussion of those ideas and events that have influenced the human condition. The Society offers courses, seminars, and lectures which explain the central ideas that have formed the past, assist in exploring the present, and offer guidance to enhance the civic future of the Erie Region.

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