Great Lives

Season: 2015

Great Lives Archives for 2015

Season: 2015

Date Lecture Speaker Media
Date Lecture Speaker Media
Jan. 15 Alfred Hitchcock Thomas Leitch
Jan. 20 The Explorers Martin Dugard
Jan. 22 Mathew Brady Robert Wilson
Jan. 27 John F. Kennedy Larry Sabato
Feb. 13 Duke Ellington John Hasse
Feb. 5 Robert Ripley Neal Thompson
Feb. 10 Winnie Davis Heath Lee
Feb. 17 Al Capone Jonathan Eig
Feb. 19 Confucius Annping Chin
Feb. 24 Jane Austen Claudia Johnson
Feb. 26 Charles Darwin (Rescheduled for 2016) Janet Browne
Mar. 10 James and Dolley Madison David Stewart
Mar. 12 Alexander the Great and the Amazons Adrienne Major
Mar. 17 Ulysses S. Grant Joan Waugh
Mar. 24 Hannibal Barry Strauss
Mar. 26 Shirley Temple John Kasson
Apr. 7 Ted Williams Ben Bradlee Jr.
Apr. 14 Peter the Great Jeremy Black

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