The April 1, 2008 lecture on Margaret Mitchell.
Darden Asbury Pyron
Florida International University
Author of Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
by UMW
The April 1, 2008 lecture on Margaret Mitchell.
Darden Asbury Pyron
Florida International University
Author of Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
by UMW
The March 27, 2008 lecture on Betty Friedan.
Daniel Horowitz
Smith College
Author of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique
by UMW
The March 20, 2008 lecture on Margaret Sanger.
Ellen Chesler
Hunter College, CUNY
Author of Woman of Valor
by UMW
The March 13, 2008 lecture on Mary and George Washington.
Special Centennial Lecture
Peter Henriques
Professor Emeritus of History
George Mason University
by UMW
The February 28, 2008 lecture on Eisenhower and Marshall.
Mark Perry
Author of Partners in Command
by UMW
The February 26, 2008 lecture on Douglas MacArthur.
Porter Blakemore
UMW Department of History and American Studies
by UMW
The February 21, 2008 lecture on Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler.
Robert Gellately
Florida State University
Author of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
by UMW
The February 12, 2008 lecture on Ella Fitzgerald.
Douglas Gately
UMW Department of Music
by UMW
The February 7, 2008 lecture on Frank Lloyd Wright.
Meryle Secrest
Author of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
by UMW
The January 31, 2008 lecture on Theodore Roosevelt.
Kathleen Dalton
Boston University
Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life
by UMW
The Special Centennial Lecture held January 17, 2008 on Mary Ball Washington.
Martha Saxton
Amherst College
Departments of History and Women’s and Gender Studies
by UMW
A lecture from the 2007 Great Lives Series on Fidel Castro, held April 12, 2007.
Robert Barr
Assistant Professor
UMW Department of Political Science and International Affairs
by UMW
A lecture from the 2007 Great Lives Series on Emily Dickinson, held April 3, 2007.
Claudia Emerson
Arrington Distinguished Chair of Poetry
Winner of 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
UMW Department of English
by UMW
A lecture from the 2007 Great Lives Series on Pocahontas, held February 1, 2007.
Margaret Huber
Chair, Distinguished Professor
UMW Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Author of Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
by UMW
A lecture from the 2007 Great Lives Series on Genghis Kahn, held January 25, 2007.
Nabil Al-Takriti
Assistant Professor
UMW Department of History
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