Peter W. Schramm

Peter W. Schramm is the Executive Director of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, a Professor of Political Science, and Chairman of the Master of American History and Government Program at Ashland University. Prior to his work at Ashland, he served in the Reagan Administration as the Director of the Center for International Education in the United States Department of Education. Before entering government service, Dr. Schramm was the President of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, in Claremont, California.

Dr. Schramm earned his Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School in 1980. He holds two Master of Arts degrees, one from Claremont in Government and the other in International History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He has received the Mentor Teaching Award seven times.

Dr. Schramm has edited, co-edited, and contributed to a number of books, including, Natural Right and Political Right, The 1984 Election and the Future of American Politics, Lessons of the Bush Defeat, American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, Consequences of the Clinton Victory, Separation of Powers and Good Government, Statecraft and Power, History of American Political Thought, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Why Coolidge Matters, Booker T. Washington: A Re-Examination and wrote the Introduction to Lord Charnwood’s Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Madison Books, 1996).

He blogs at No Left Turns, writes a regular column for On Principle, and has published in The Claremont Review of Books, The Historian, The Columbus Dispatch, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and other papers in Ohio.

Courses Taught: 

• POLSC 101 Understanding Politics
• POLSC 320 American Political Thought I
• POLSC 321 American Political Thought II
• POLSC 370 Topics in American Politics: Lincoln
• POLSC 380 Topics in Political Thought: Shakespeare
• POLSC 431 Human Being and Citizen
• AHG 510 Great American Texts: Abraham Lincoln
• AHG 510 Great American Texts: Ralph Ellison
• AHG 630 American Statesmen

Publications:

• "A Quiet Man of Character," chapter in Why Coolidge Matters, National Notary Association, Summer 2010.
• "America and Opportunity," chapter in Booker T. Washington: A Re-Examination, Diane Carol Bast and S.T. Karnick, eds., The Heartland Institute, 2008.
• "Vice President as Presiding Officer," chapter in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Edwin Meese III, Matthew Spalding, and David Forte, eds., Regnery Publishing, 2005.
• "One Last Card to Play: A Review of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. VI, No. 2, Spring 2004.
• "Booker T. Washington and the 'Severe American Crucible'", chapter in History of American Political Thought (Lexington Press, 2003).
• Introduction, Lord Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, (Madison Books, 1996).
• Consequences of the Clinton Victory, (Ashbrook Center, 1994), editor.
• Separation of Powers and Good Government, (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), co-editor.
• "Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe," chapter in Statecraft and Power by Christopher Harmon and David Tucker, (University Press of America, 1994).
• American Political Parties and Constitutional Government, (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), co-editor.
• Lessons of the Bush Defeat, (Ashbrook Center, 1993), editor.
• The 1984 Election and the Future of American Politics, (Carolina Academic Press, 1987), co-editor.
• Natural Right and Political Right: Essays in Honor of Harry V. Jaffa, (Carolina Academic Press, 1984), co-editor.

Other Writing:

• No Left Turns, The Weblog of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, daily commentary on current events
• Articles on www.ashbrook.org