Great Lives

Archives: Lectures

Great Lives Archives for Lectures

Archives: Lectures

Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
2019 Feb. 14 Billie Holiday Tracy Fessenden
2019 Feb. 7 Jane Goodall Dale Peterson
2019 Feb. 5 Benedict Arnold Joyce Lee Malcolm
2019 Jan. 31 Mikhail Gorbachev William Taubman
2019 Jan. 22 Bruce Lee Matthew Polly
2019 Jan. 15 Rodgers and Hammerstein Todd S. Purdum
2018 Apr. 17 Napoleon Jeremy Black
2018 Apr. 10 Warren Buffett Alice Schroeder
2018 Mar. 29 Pauli Murray & Eleanor Roosevelt Patricia Bell-Scott
2018 Mar. 27 Ansel Adams Mary Street Alinder
2018 Mar. 20 Richard Nixon John A. Farrell
2018 Mar. 15 The Dust Bowl Girls Lydia Reeder
2018 Mar. 13 Coco Chanel Rhonda K. Garelick
2018 Mar. 1 Prince Charles Sally Bedell Smith
2018 Feb. 27 George Orwell Michael Shelden
2018 Feb. 22 Ernest Hemingway & John Dos Passos James McGrath Morris
2018 Feb. 15 Sam Phillips Peter Guralnick
2018 Feb. 13 The Tuskegee Airmen J. Todd Moye
2018 Feb. 8 Nikola Tesla W. Bernard Carlson
2018 Feb. 6 The Women Soldiers of World War I Elizabeth Cobbs

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