Center for American Heritage Studies: Mission... Education, Research, Outreach, Publication
The Center for American Heritage Studies is dedicated to the preservation, maintenance, and continuation of our American Republic as defined in America's founding documents and situated in our founding principles. As noted by many of the founders, after securing independence by revolution, citizens turned to education to grow the young republic. If America was to have a future, citizens succeeding generations would have to be educated on the fruits of liberty in order to preserve that liberty.
The idea of American heritage is a shared notion; one that belongs to every American citizen. The same founding principles that nurtured the disparate political figures of Senator Hillary Clinton and President George Bush also sustains their lives as citizens. The point is simple, the American heritage that animates our founding principles really does belong to the public.
The mission of the Center for American Heritage Studies features four programs:
Education: The Center for American Heritage Studies is keenly interested in heritage studies/public history as found in museums, living history parks, motion pictures, television programs and documentaries, public schools, works of fiction, Internet sites, and various other places where history might be found outside of higher education.
Research: The Center for American Heritage Studies is devoted to the design, development, and execution of rigorous/scholarly research related to our heritage; definitions, examples, applications, comparative studies, analysis, synthesis, theory, evaluation and assessment.
Outreach The Center for American Heritage Studies is dedicated to fostering heritage through public presentations via the arts and other media.
Publication: The Center for American Heritage Studies is engaged in promoting heritage through publications designed to stimulate discussion, encourage dialogue, and raise public awareness of heritage as cultural content and heritage as a public issue.