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Archived Lectures - 2014

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2014

DateLectureSpeakerMedia
Jan. 16John Wilkes BoothDavid O. Stewart
Jan. 28Jim HensonBrian Jay Jones
Feb. 4Martin Luther King Jr.David Garrow
Feb. 6Bob DylanSean Wilentz
Feb. 11The Hatfields and McCoysDean King
Feb. 20Jim ThorpeKate Buford
Feb. 25Mata HariPat Shipman
Feb. 27AugustusKarl Galinsky
Mar. 11Henry Ward BeecherDebby Applegate
Mar. 13Atomic GirlsDenise Kiernan
Mar. 18Scott and Zelda FitzgeraldTherese Anne Fowler
Mar. 27Titans of the Gilded Age: Rockefeller, Carnegie, and MorganH.W. Brands
Apr. 1Henry VIIIJeremy Black
Apr. 8ShakespeareLois Potter
Apr. 10SpartacusBarry Strauss
Apr. 15MachiavelliMiles Unger
Apr. 17Simon BolivarMarie Arana
Apr. 22Charles and Anne Morrow LindberghReeve Lindbergh

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