Great Lives

Season: 2020

Great Lives Archives for 2020

Season: 2020

Date Lecture Speaker Media
Date Lecture Speaker Media
Jan. 28 D-Day Girls Sarah Rose
Jan. 30 JFK/James Bond Steven Watts
Feb. 4 Francis Gary Powers Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
Feb. 6 The Beach Boys Peter Ames Carlin
Feb. 25 John and John Quincy Adams Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
Feb. 18 Stephen Hawking Kitty Ferguson
Feb. 20 American Duelists Joanne Freeman
Feb. 27 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight
Mar. 10 Female Internet Inventors Claire Evans
Mar. 12 C.S. Lewis Devin Brown Cancelled due to COVID-19
Mar. 19 America’s Notorious Pirates Eric Jay Dolin Cancelled due to COVID-19
Mar. 24 Karl Marx Jonathan Sperber Cancelled due to COVID-19
Apr. 2 Sandra Day O’Connor Evan Thomas Cancelled due to COVID-19
Apr. 7 Nikita Khrushchev William Taubman Cancelled due to COVID-19
Apr. 14 Pioneer Female Aviators Keith O'Brien Cancelled due to COVID-19
Feb. 11 Dr. Seuss Brian Jay Jones
Mar. 31 Hedy Lamarr Stephen Michael Shearer Cancelled due to COVID-19
Jan. 23 Tiger Woods Jeff Benedict
Jan. 21 Ronald Reagan Craig Shirley

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