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Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
Fall 2020 Oct. 6 Harry S. Truman: The Accidental President and the Triumph of True Grit William B. Crawley
Fall 2020 Sep. 22 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Savior or Spoiler of American Democracy? William B. Crawley
Fall 2020 Sep. 8 Woodrow Wilson: Self-Righteous Idealist or Far-Sighted Visionary? William B. Crawley
Fall 2020 Aug. 25 Theodore Roosevelt: The Patrician Progressive and the Bully Pulpit William B. Crawley
Fall 2020 Aug. 11 Thomas Jefferson: Paragon of Democracy or Racist Hypocrite? William B. Crawley
2020 Apr. 14 Pioneer Female Aviators Keith O'Brien Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Apr. 7 Nikita Khrushchev William Taubman Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Apr. 2 Sandra Day O’Connor Evan Thomas Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Mar. 31 Hedy Lamarr Stephen Michael Shearer Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Mar. 24 Karl Marx Jonathan Sperber Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Mar. 19 America’s Notorious Pirates Eric Jay Dolin Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Mar. 12 C.S. Lewis Devin Brown Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Mar. 10 Female Internet Inventors Claire Evans
2020 Feb. 27 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight
2020 Feb. 25 John and John Quincy Adams Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
2020 Feb. 20 American Duelists Joanne Freeman
2020 Feb. 18 Stephen Hawking Kitty Ferguson
2020 Feb. 11 Dr. Seuss Brian Jay Jones
2020 Feb. 6 The Beach Boys Peter Ames Carlin
2020 Feb. 4 Francis Gary Powers Francis Gary Powers, Jr.

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