Great Lives

Season: 2016

Great Lives Archives for 2016

Season: 2016

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

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