LifeLong Learning-San Marcos
"The Business of May Next":
The Constitution of the United States of America
No registration necessary
When: Wednesdays: Oct. 9, 16, 23, 30
Where: San Marcos Public Library
Time: 1:00-2:30pm
Fee: Free… donations appreciated!
Course Description
This course on the Constitution discusses the Philadelphia Convention comprised of 55 colonials who in the summer of 1787 wrote a new contract of government for the newly freed colonies. Who were these people? How did they come to do what they did? What did they actually do?
It is "a story that Americans ought to keep telling themselves as long as the nation it helped to form may live." At few times in our history has it been more vital to our system of government that we now do precisely that.
About Your Presenter: Jo Sinder
Jo is a retired faculty member from Texas State University’s Department of History. She is an award winning educator with an academic focus on Texas. Jo has led several LLL-smtx courses related to U.S. History and government as well as sewing and quilting. She also launched our Texas and Western Literature Book Club in 2022. Jo is the author of Claiming Sunday: The Story of a Texas Slave Community (2nd Ed.).