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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
The Beatles

Gardner Campbell
UMW Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech

4/8/08
Napoleon Bonaparte

Jeremy Black
University of Exeter
Author of For Louis XIV to Napoleon

4/27/06
Fidel Castro Robert Barr
UMW Department of Political Science
4/12/07
Bill and Hillary Clinton

Sally Bedell Smith
Author of
For Love of Politics: Bill and Hilary Clinton

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
Arrington Distinguished Chair of Poetry
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
UMW Department of English

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
Smith College
Author of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique

3/28/08
Ella Fitzgerald

Douglas Gately
UMW Department of Music

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
Florida State University
Author of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler

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
Florida International University
Author of
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell

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
UMW Department of Political Science

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
Marshall University
Author of FDR

1/24/08
Theodore Roosevelt

Kathleen Dalton
Boston University
Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life

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
Sports Illustrated, retired

4/17/08
Margaret Sanger Ellen Chesler
Hunter College, CUNY
Author of Woman of Valor
5/20/08
Dr. Suess

Philip Nel
Kanas State University
Author of Dr. Seuss: American Icon

4/15/08
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

2/9/2008
Mary Ball Washington

Martha Saxton
Amherst College
Departments of History and Women's and Gender Studies
Special Centennial Lecture

1/17/08
Frank Lloyd Wright

Meryle Secrest
Author of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography

2/15/08