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Archived Lectures - 2012

Great Lives Archived Lectures 2012

2012

DateLectureSpeakerMedia
Jan. 24Kurt VonnegutCharles J. Shields
Jan. 31Marquis de LafayetteMarc Leepson
Feb. 2Noah WebsterJoshua Kendall
Feb. 7 Aaron BurrDavid O. Stewart
Feb. 9 ColumbusLaurence Bergreen
Feb. 14 The Loving StoryNancy Buirski
Feb. 16 Jackie RobinsonJonathan Eig
Feb. 23Clarence DarrowJohn A. Farrell
Mar. 13Louisa May AlcottHarriet Reisen
Mar. 15 Juliette Gordon LowStacey Cordery
Mar. 27 Sherlock HolmesJeremy Black
Apr. 3J.E.B. StuartEmory M. Thomas
Apr. 5Marie and Pierre CurieLauren Redniss
Apr. 10 Madam C.J. WalkerA’Lelia Bundles
Apr. 12The Wright BrothersJames Tobin
Apr. 17Mustafa Kemal AtatürkNabil Al-Tikriti
Apr. 19 Anne FrankSid Jacobson
Apr. 24P.T. BarnumNeil Harris
Apr. 26The Untold Civil WarJames I. Robertson

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