{"id":29234,"date":"2026-03-10T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=29234"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:02:51","slug":"final-amicus-curiae-lecture-of-the-academic-year-set-for-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/final-amicus-curiae-lecture-of-the-academic-year-set-for-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Amicus Curiae Lecture of the academic year set for March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The final installment of the Amicus Curiae Lecture on Constitutional Democracy for the 2025\u20132026 academic year is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will feature Sarah M. S. Pearsall, award-winning author and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, who will present \u201cA World History of the American Revolution.\u201d Her talk will explore the American Revolution not only as a defining moment in the development of the United States, but also as an event shaped by global ideas, empires and political movements.<\/p>\n<p>Pearsall previously taught at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She also serves as a Distinguished Fellow in the American Revolution at the British Library. Pearsall holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. Her latest book, &#8220;Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution,&#8221; will be released in May.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>According to center Director Patricia Proctor, the lecture\u2019s theme is particularly timely as the nation approaches a historic milestone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the nation and the Declaration of Independence,\u201d Proctor said. &#8220;The story of the founding is an old one to most of us, but Sarah Pearsall has new things to teach us. She tells the story from a different perspective, shedding light on how events and people beyond this country impacted its founding. Her perspective is genuinely interesting, and I am very excited to welcome her to Marshall and to hear her lecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Amicus Curiae Lecture Series brings distinguished scholars and thought leaders to campus to explore issues related to constitutional democracy, civic institutions and the historical foundations of democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final installment of the Amicus Curiae Lecture on Constitutional Democracy for the 2025\u20132026 academic year is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall at Marshall University. The lecture will feature Sarah M. S. Pearsall, award-winning author and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, who will present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29238,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions\/29238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}