Listen to Great Lives Lectures
Many of the Great Lives lectures have been recorded and are available to listen to by clicking on the links below. You will need a high speed connection (provided by the University, or a cable/DSL provider) to view the webcasts. You also will need to download the free Real Player.
The 2007 lectures are currently being formatted for the web and will be available soon.
Great Life |
Speaker |
Date |
| Alexander the Great | Bruce O'Brien UMW Department of History |
1/20/05 |
| Muhammad Ali | William Nack Retired Writer, Sports Illustrated |
4/27/06 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Jeremy Black University of Exeter Author of From Louis XIV to Napoleon |
3/10/05 |
| Fidel Castro | Robert Barr UMW Department of Political Science |
4/12/07 |
| Dante | Giuseppe Mazzotta Sterling Professor of Italian, Yale University |
1/26/06 |
| Jefferson Davis | William Davis Virginia Tech Author of Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour |
3/16/06 |
| Charles DeGaulle | Jason Davidson UMW Department of Political Science |
4/10/07 |
| Princess Diana | Sally Bedell Smith Author of Diana in Search of Herself |
4/24/07 |
| Emily Dickinson | Claudia Emerson Arrington Distinguished Chair of Poetry, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, UMW Department of English |
4/3/07 |
| Walt Disney | Steven Watts Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia Author of The Magic Kingdom" Walt Disney and the American Way of Life |
4/5/07 |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Dolen Perkens-Valdez UMW Department of English |
4/7/05 |
| Albert Einstein | Alan Lightman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Author of Einstein's Dreams |
2/2/06 |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | Teresa Kennedy UMW Department of English |
2/3/05 |
| William Faulkner | Michael Bibler UMW Department of English |
4/25/06 |
| Henry Ford | Steven Watts University of Missouri - Columbia Author of The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century |
4/13/06 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Carter Hudgins UMW Department of History |
2/7/06 |
| Galileo |
Leanna Giancarlo UMW Department of Chemistry |
1/31/06 |
| George III | Jeremy Black Exeter University Author of George III: America's Last King |
3/15/07 |
| Joan of Arc | Mary Gordon Barnard College Author of Joan of Arc |
3/23/06 |
| Stonewall Jackson | James I. "Bud" Robertson Distinguished Professor of History, Virginia Tech Author of Stonewall Jackson: the Man, the Soldier, the Legend |
3/20/07 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Dan Jordan President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Author of Political Leadership in Jefferson's Virginia |
2/13/07 |
| Scott Joplin | Katherine K. Preston David N. and Margaret C. Bottoms Professor of Music, The College of William & Mary Author of Scott Joplin |
3/27/07 |
| Genghis Kahn | Nabil Al-Tikriti UMW Department of History and American Studies |
1/25/07 |
| Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan | Jennifer Jakubecy UMW Department of Education |
3/28/06 |
| Jack and Jackie Kennedy | Sally Bedell Smith Author of Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House |
4/21/05 |
| Robert Kennedy | Evan Thomas Newsweek Author of Robert Kennedy: His Life |
4/18/06 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Roger Wilkins George Mason University Author of Jefferson's Pillow |
2/16/06 |
| Robert E. Lee | Gary Gallagher University of Virginia Author of Lee and His Generals in War and Memory |
3/17/05 |
| Lewis and Clark | Jon Kukla Author of A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America |
2/24/05 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Richard Norton Smith Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum |
3/2/06 |
| Malcolm X | James Miller Department of American Studies, George Washington University |
2/23/06 |
| Thurgood Marshall | Juan Williams Senior Correspondent, NPR Author of Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary |
2/22/07 |
| Moses | Bruce O'Brien UMW Department of History |
1/19/06 |
| Mozart | Kevin Bartram UMW Department of Music |
2/17/05 |
| Muhammed | Nabil Al-Tikriti UMW Department of History |
1/27/05 |
| George Patton | Porter Blakemore UMW Department of History |
4/6/06 |
| Pocahontas | Margaret Huber UMW Department of Sociology and Anthropology Author of Powhatan Lords of Life and Death |
2/1/07 |
| Elvis Presley | Gardner Campbell UMW Department of English |
4/14/05 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Blanche Wiesen Cook John Jay College, CUNY Author of Eleanor Roosevelt |
3/30/06 |
| Roosevelt and Churchill | Jon Meacham Managing Editor, Newsweek Author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship |
3/31/05 |
| Secretariat | Bill Nack Sports Illustrated, retired Author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion |
4/19/07 |
| John Smith | David Shields McClintock Professor of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Author of Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America |
2/6/07 |
| Harry Truman | Stephen Farnsworth UMW Department of Political Science |
4/20/06 |
| Harriet Tubman | Catherine Clinton Author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom |
2/10/05 |
| George Washington | Edward Lengel University of Virginia Author of General George Washington: A Military History |
2/9/06 |