MTSU Centennial Constitution Week 2011

Constitutional Responsibility and Civil Society
September 11-20, 2011

All week

  • Explore John Adams: Unbound, the traveling exhibit that examines how books shaped John Adams and his contributions to American thought, Walker Library First Floor, just past the elevators
  • View MTSU Graphic Design students’ posters of Constitutional ideals, Todd Gallery, Walker Library Lobby, and Cope Lobby
  • Read portions of the Constitution posted on signs on campus all week!

Sunday, September 11

  • 2 p.m., Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, 940 New Salem Highway
  • Share in the Rutherford County 9/11 Commemoration with our community, our local first-responders, and MTSU student participants

Tuesday, September 13

  • Events all day with The Honorable James A. Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Engage in a panel discussion, John Adams: A Lasting Legacy, with distinguished scholars Drs. Robb McDaniel, Lynn Nelson, John Vile, and James H. Williams of MTSU, with Chairman James A. Leach, National Endowment for the Humanities, 11:20, Walker Library First Floor, in the John Adams: Unbound exhibit
  • Expand your thinking through "Civility, the Constitution, and the Courts,” MTSU’s Centennial Constitution Day Distinguished Lecture, by James A. Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities: 4:30 p.m., T. Earl Hinton Music Hall, Wright Music Building

Wednesday, September 14
All day at Walker Library

  • Meet President John Adams: George Baker portrays our nation’s second president, writer of the Massachusetts Constitution that laid a foundation on which the U.S. Constitution was developed

Thursday, September 15
10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Walker Library Portico

  • Print your own copy of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on the University’s replica 18th-century printing press

Thursday, September 15 & Friday, September 16
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, KUC Knoll

  • Sign the U.S. Constitution
  • Register to vote!
  • Talk to President James Madison, framer of the U.S. Constitution, and Mrs. Dolley Madison
  • Screen print a T-shirt of Constitution-inspired designs created by students of Printer’s Proof. Print on your own shirt or buy one on site.
  • Listen and participate in civically engaged live music, socially conscious songs of patriotism and protest, by RIM students
  • Make vellum/parchment with the students of Agribusiness and Agriscience
  • Find out about campus civic engagement initiatives by MTSU student organizations!

Friday, September 16
10 a.m. KUC Knoll

  • Come together with the University as we read aloud the U.S. Constitution!

Saturday, September 17 National Constitution Day

Tuesday, September 20
1 p.m., LRC 221

  • Living the First Amendment: Join a conversation with John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, and John Seigenthaler Jr., former NBC News anchor and CEO of Seigenthaler Public Relations-NY

Constitution Week Sponsors:
American Democracy Project
Distinguished Lecture Committee
James E. Walker Library
MTSU Public History Program
Center for Student Involvement and Leadership
John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies