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Archived Lectures - 2018

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2018

Date Lecture Speaker Media
Date Lecture Speaker Media
Jan. 18 Jonas Salk Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
Jan. 25 Women Code Breakers of World War II Liza Mundy
Jan. 30 Jim Henson Brian Jay Jones
Feb. 1 Lawmen and Outlaws of the Old West Tom Clavin
Feb. 6 The Women Soldiers of World War I Elizabeth Cobbs
Feb. 8 Nikola Tesla W. Bernard Carlson
Feb. 13 The Tuskegee Airmen J. Todd Moye
Feb. 15 Sam Phillips Peter Guralnick
Feb. 22 Ernest Hemingway & John Dos Passos James McGrath Morris
Feb. 27 George Orwell Michael Shelden
Mar. 1 Prince Charles Sally Bedell Smith
Mar. 13 Coco Chanel Rhonda K. Garelick
Mar. 15 The Dust Bowl Girls Lydia Reeder
Mar. 20 Richard Nixon John A. Farrell
Mar. 27 Ansel Adams Mary Street Alinder
Mar. 29 Pauli Murray & Eleanor Roosevelt Patricia Bell-Scott
Apr. 10 Warren Buffett Alice Schroeder
Apr. 17 Napoleon Jeremy Black

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