Great Lives

Archives: Lectures

Great Lives Archives for Lectures

Archives: Lectures

Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
2017 Feb. 2 Hamilton and Burr John Sedgwick
2017 Jan. 31 Frank Sinatra James Kaplan
2017 Jan. 24 Woodrow Wilson David O. Stewart
2016 Apr. 14 Dwight Eisenhower Evan Thomas
2016 Apr. 12 Jefferson Davis James M. McPherson
2016 Apr. 7 Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
2016 Mar. 29 Oliver Cromwell Jeremy Black
2016 Mar. 24 TR and FDR: Environmentalist Presidents Douglas Brinkley
2016 Mar. 22 Civil War Female Spies Karen Abbott
2016 Mar. 17 Secretariat William Nack
2016 Mar. 15 Charles Darwin Janet Browne
2016 Mar. 10 William Tecumseh Sherman Robert L. O’Connell
2016 Mar. 8 Bob Hope Richard Zoglin
2016 Feb. 25 Ethel Payne James McGrath Morris
2016 Feb. 18 Jesse Owens Jeremy Schaap
2016 Feb. 11 Matthew Fontaine Maury John Grady
2016 Feb. 9 Aviation Icons Winston Groom
2016 Feb. 4 Johnny Cash Mark Stielper
2016 Feb. 2 Alexander Graham Bell Charlotte Gray
2016 Jan. 21 Georgia O’Keeffe Roxana Robinson

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