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Michael W. Cunningham, Ph.D. · Historian of leadership

Leadership history through the ages

Read scholarship on how leaders were formed, how they led, and how later generations chose to remember them, from Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia to the present

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Periods of study

18th centuryThe American foundingBenjamin Franklin and the generations of historians who have reinterpreted him. 1900 to todayThe twentieth century and afterC. S. Lewis, Carl F. H. Henry, Paul Tillich and Timothy Keller as leaders of ideas and movements. Across periodsRelated scholarshipWork on education, culture and the practice of leadership.

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Cover of America at 250: The Fragile Experiment that Changed the World

America at 250

Cover of Benjamin Franklin Leadership Lessons: 30 Day Reader

Benjamin Franklin Leadership Lessons

Cover of Pioneer Leadership: Eight Principles for Leading People Through Change in the Age of AI

Pioneer Leadership

Cover of Ben Franklin: The Boy Who Kept Growing

Ben Franklin: The Boy Who Kept Growing

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