Civility conference set

SPOKANE - Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, and Sam Reed, Washington Secretary of State, will deliver keynote addresses for "Civility and Democracy in America," at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Davenport Hotel, Spokane.

The goal of the conference is to discuss the state of civility in American democracy,

"Civility and Democracy in America" is sponsored by the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service at Washington State University, in partnership with Humanities Washington and the Idaho Humanities Council and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Civility and Democracy in America" is one of four national conferences on civility in democracy funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.