Constitution Day Conference 2025
The Center for Constitutional Studies will hold its annual Constitution Day conference on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, on UVU campus in Orem, Utah, starting at 11 a.m. on Sept. 10, and 10 a.m. on Sept. 17.
The theme of the conference is American Cincinnatus: George Washington’s Constitutional Legacy.
- The Sept. 10 session will examine Washington’s time as commander in chief of the Continental Army.
- The Sept. 17session will address Washington's statesmanship during the framing of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the presidency.
- Overall, the conference will consider Washington's impact on how we govern ourselves today.
Conference Schedule | Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025
- 11 a.m. | Kevin Weddle Lecture | CB 101
- 12:15 p.m. | Luncheon for Invited Guests | Remarks by Kevin Weddle & Nathan Philbrick
- 2 p.m. | Nathaniel Philbrick Lecture | CB 101
Conference Schedule | Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025
- 10 a.m. | Session 1 | CB 101
- 11 a.m. | Session 2 | CB 101
- 12 noon | Lunch Break
- 2 p.m. | Session 3 | CB 101
- 3 p.m. | Adjourn
Presenters and Panelists
- Kevin J. Weddle | A distinguished military historian and the former Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies at the U.S. Army War College. He is a native Minnesotan, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and served more than 28 years on active duty in the U.S. Army before retiring as a colonel. His critically acclaimed book The Complete Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021), earned six national and international literary awards including the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, and the Society of the Cincinnati Prize. He spent the 2024–2025 year as a research fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon and has previously been a fellow at Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is completing a book on George Washington development as a military commander, Washington at War: The Making of a Commander in Chief.
- Nathaniel Philbrick | The New York Times bestselling author of a raft of books on maritime and American history. He has chronicled the Revolutionary War in two bestsellers, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution and Valiant Ambition: George Washinton, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution. His In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, is a chronicle of the ship that inspired Moby Dick, won the National Book Award and is now a major motion picture.