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Archived Lectures - 2021

Great Lives Archived Lectures 2021

2021

Date Lecture Speaker Media
Date Lecture Speaker Media
Jan. 19 James Monroe / George Washington Scott Harris
Jan. 21 Sojourner Truth Claudine Ferrell
Jan. 26 Süleyman the Magnificent Nabil Al-Tikriti
Jan. 28 Andrei Tupolev / Joseph Stalin Steven Harris
Feb. 2 Isaac Newton Keith Mellinger
Feb. 4 Art Buchwald Michael Hill
Feb. 9 Johnny Carson Stephen Farnsworth
Feb. 11 I.M. Pei Suzie Kim
Feb. 16 Horatio Alger Jack Bales
Feb. 18 Douglas MacArthur Porter Blakemore
Feb. 23 Anna Julia Cooper / W. E. B. Du Bois Kristin Marsh
Feb. 25 Goethe Sammy Merrill
Mar. 2 Madeleine Albright Jason Davidson
Mar. 4 Zora Neale Hurston / Eudora Welty Gary Richards
Mar. 9 St. Augustine Jennifer Barry
Mar. 11 Mohandas K. Gandhi Anand Rao
Mar. 16 Artemisia Gentileschi Marjorie Och
Mar. 18 Lillian Hellman Gregg Stull

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