We teach civilization’s greatest PRINCIPLES in civilization’s greatest PLACES.

When you walk onto the grounds of Middleton Place, one of Charleston’s grand plantations, it may feel like you have walked into the pages of Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind. Being on a Civil War–era plantation invites you to experience the American South before, during, and after the Civil War. Because Middleton Place was home to people on each side of slavery, it allows sojourners to explore lessons found at the intersection of the two: the privileged as well as the enslaved.

Oxford, England, is a place that breeds a keen sense of community among those who walk its streets. The town teems with professors and students, townsfolk and friends — and plenty of out-of-towners who come with a longing to belong.

Notably, many find the peculiar sense of belonging they seek when they walk into the Oxford of C. S. Lewis’s day.

On a sloped field at Runnymede, just outside London in AD 1215, English landowners (“barons”) banded together to lay the greatest stepping stone in a millenium on the path to balancing governmental power with civil liberty. Their instrument for doing so is revered as the “Great Charter,” more commonly known as the Magna Carta.