January 25 & 26, 2019: 2nd American History & Western Civilization Challenge Bowl in NYC
AHEF’s second American History & Western Civilization Challenge Bowl™ (AHWCCB) will be held on January 25-26, 2019, at The King’s College of NY in New York City! Student teams from Grove City College, Abigail Adams Institute, Princeton University (James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions), and The King’s College of New York will compete for scholarship prizes and academic recognition at the 2019 event.
AHEF initiated the challenge bowl to encourage and incentivize colleges and universities to teach, and students to study, the objective and factual content of Western Civilization and America’s founding history and philosophy. Studies in the last 20 years show that Americans of all backgrounds are not as informed as we need to be about these subjects or our nation. Further, many schools are no longer teaching these subjects. Such trends are a dangerous matter in a self-governing republic like ours which depends on an educated citizenry. The challenge bowl aims to motivate and improve citizens’ education and intellectual and practical understanding of the American idea so that Americans may become informed, engaged participants and leaders in our democracy who can perpetuate and improve the realization of our nation’s founding principles and values in present and future generations.
Topics covered in the competition are relevant to America’s founding heritage. Topics span from ancient, classical civilizations of the Greco-Romans and Hebrews to the medieval and modern eras including the Reformation, Renaissance, and Enlightenment to the history and founding of the United States of America.
The 2019 Semi-Finals Essay Topic has been released as follows:
“Since the beginning of human history, most people have lived under some form of authoritarianism. In such regimes, rulership was largely a matter of the elite few ruling over and living off of the unprivileged many. Only during the last few hundred years has the idea of the constitutional accountability of government to the populace as a whole risen to prominence. Discuss the philosophical and historical causes of the ascendancy of this idea, including key events, leaders, and reasoning.”
Semi-Finals: Friday, January 25, 2019
5 PM – Grove City College vs Princeton University
7 PM – The King’s College vs Abigail Adams Institute
Finals: Saturday, January 26, 2019
2 PM – Finalists
Location:
The King’s College, 56 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 (City Room, 5th Floor)
212-659-7200 / 888-969-7200
Academic Curriculum Analyst:
-The National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Moderator:
-Mr. Jeremy Tate, Co-Founder and President of the Classic Learning Test
Academic Teams:
-Grove City College – Coach: Dr. Jason R. Edwards. Student Team: Noah Gould, Carolyn Hartwick, Elena Peters
-Abigail Adams Institute – Coach: Dr. Danilo Petranovich. Student Team: Portia Berry-Kilby, Finnian Brown, Liam Warner
-Princeton University – Coach: Dr. Russ Nieli. Student Team: Emerson Salovaara, Nicholas Sileo, Alvin Zhang
-The King’s College of New York – Coach: Dr. Josh Kinlaw. Student Team: Michael Napoli, Ellen Rogers, Abigail Rose-Smith
Academic Judges:
-Dr. Stephen Balch, Director of The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University; Co-Founder of the National Association of Scholars
-Dr. Robert Koons, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Founder of The Western Civilization and American Institutions Program, The University of Texas at Austin
All team members will receive scholarship prizes according to their order of finish of between $1,000-$4,000.
Free Admission. Please register to attend in person or watch in livestream.
AHWCCB 2019 Printable Flyer (PDF)
Hosted by the American Heritage Education Foundation Inc. in partnership with The King’s College of New York.
Related articles/videos:
AHEF Pioneers Innovative History & Civic Education Initiatives
American History & Western Civilization Challenge Bowl – Program Information
AHWCCB™ Video
1st American History & Western Civilization Challenge Bowl (AHWCCB) – 2017
For more information about AHWCCB, please visit americanheritage.org.
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