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.
The 2009 lectures are currently being formatted for the web and will be available soon.
You will need a high speed connection (provided by the University, or a cable/DSL provider) to view the webcasts.
Download the free Real Player for videos prior to 2008.
Download the flashplayer for 2008 videos.
Great Life |
Speaker |
Date |
| Bruce O'Brien UMW Department of History |
1/20/05 | |
| Muhammad Ali | William Nack Retired Writer, Sports Illustrated |
4/27/06 |
| The Beatles | Gardner Campbell |
4/8/08 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Jeremy Black |
4/27/06 |
| Fidel Castro | Robert Barr UMW Department of Political Science |
4/12/07 |
| Bill and Hillary Clinton | Sally Bedell Smith |
4/24/08 |
| 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 |
| Emily Dickinson | Claudia Emerson |
4/3/07 |
| 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 |
| James Farmer | Timothy O'Donnell UMW Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech |
2/26/08 |
| Betty Friedan | Daniel Horowitz |
3/28/08 |
| Ella Fitzgerald | Douglas Gately |
2/26/08 |
| 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 |
| Joan of Arc | Mary Gordon Barnard College Author of Joan of Arc |
3/23/06 |
| 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 |
| Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler | Robert Gellately |
2/21/08 |
| 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 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Porter Blakemore UMW Department of American Studies |
2/26/08 |
| Margaret Mitchell | Darden Asbury Pyron |
4/1/08 |
| 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 |
| Richard Nixon | Stephen Farnsworth |
4/22/08 |
| 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 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Jean Edward Smith |
1/24/08 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Kathleen Dalton |
1/31/08 |
| Roosevelt and Churchill | Jon Meacham Managing Editor, Newsweek Author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship |
3/31/05 |
| Babe Ruth | William Nack |
4/17/08 |
| Margaret Sanger | Ellen Chesler Hunter College, CUNY Author of Woman of Valor |
5/20/08 |
| Dr. Suess | Philip Nel |
4/15/08 |
| Harriet Tubman | Catherine Clinton Author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom |
2/10/05 |
| George Washington | Edward Lengel |
2/9/2008 |
| Mary Ball Washington | Martha Saxton |
1/17/08 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Meryle Secrest |
2/15/08 |