On the second anniversary of "A National Conversation on Pluralism and American Identity," a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Endowment's chairman, Dr. Sheldon Hackney shares with his audience what he and the NEH staff have learned from their extraordinary undertaking. Addressing issues of ethnic, racial and religious tensions and the decline of national confidence and pride, Hackney calls for a national conversation in which Americans "examine and discuss what unites us as a country, what we share as common American values in a nation comprised of so many divergent groups and beliefs."
Before chairing the NEH, Dr. Hackney served for 12 years as the president of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the award-winning history Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, and numerous other books and magazine, journal and newspaper articles.
This lecture is free and open to the public and has been organized by the American Studies Association, in conjunction with The Carnegie Museum of Art and the University of Pittsburgh.
