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Samuel Postell

Lyceum Visiting Scholar, Lyceum Program, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism

Samuel Postell is the Lyceum Visiting Scholar of the CISC. He holds a B.A. in Politics and English from Ashland University and an M.A. from the University of Dallas in Political Theory. Before joining CISC, Postell served as the Executive Director for the Center for Liberty and Learning and professor of American Literature, Government, Rhetoric and Economics at Founders Classical Academy in Lewisville, Texas. He has taught American Politics and American Studies courses at the University of Dallas and Midwestern State University.

Postell maintains research interests in the U.S. Congress and legislative statesmanship, politics and literature, and administrative law. He has published essays and book chapters on the Missouri Compromise, the Whig Party, and Henry Clay. He intends to defend his dissertation this fall, tentatively titled, Rocked in the Cradle of the Revolution: Henry Clay, Legislative Statesmanship, and the Theory of Union.