Past Lectures
2024:听 Julian E. Zelizer, "The 2024 Election in Historical Perspective"
2023:听 Alexander Keyssar, "The Right to Vote:听 The Contested History of Democracy in the United States"
2022:听 Summer of Soul, 1969:听 A Retrospective, featuring a screening of the Academy Award Winning Film
听 听 听 听 听 听"Summer of Soul" and Live Concert by 大象传媒's Commercial Music Program and Music Faculty
2020: Andra Gillespie, "Race and Politics:听 The Crossroads of Modern American Political Culture"
2019: Remembering the 1960s and Woodstock, Narrated by Dr. Kelly Shannon and featuring Commerical Music Musicians and Singers听|听听(View Photo Gallery)
2018:听 Lein-Hang T. Nguyen, "Toward a New History of the TET Offensive:听 Spies, Allies and Murder in Hanoi"
2017: William H. Chafe,听 "The Modern Presidency from Kennedy to Trump:听 Intersections of Politics and Personality"
2016: Ambassador Robert "Skipp" Orr "The Evolution of a U.S. Ambassador: Policy and Perspective in a Global Age"
2015: Allida M. Black: "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Battle for Human Rights:听1945 to the Present"
2014: Christopher R. Browning: "Hitler and the Decisions for the Final Solution"
2013: Jeffrey Morton: "The Role of Diplomacy in 20th Century American Foreign Policy"
2012:
2011: Jacob Hamblin:
2010: Robert Goldberg: "Enemies Within: The Conspiracy Culture of Modern America
2009: Thomas W. Zeiler: "The Greatest Generation in A Good War?: A New Look at Wartime America
2008: Wilson D. Miscamble: "Harry S. Truman, The Bomb, and the Transformation of the U.S. Foreign Policy"
2007: Nancy F. Cott: "Revisiting the Jazz Age"
(Printed copies available by request.)
2006: Glenda Gilmore: "The Nazis and Dixie: African Americans, Jewish Americans, and Fascism, 1933-1939"
(Printed copies available by request.)
2005: David Goldfield: "Religion and Politics: An American Tradition"
(Printed copies available by request.)
2004: Timothy Naftali: "Blind Spot: Secret History of U.S. Counterterrorism"