History
Comes Alive Series - Past Lectures
The 2006 lecture series(2006
History comes alive brochure):
September 19. Professor Todd Estes will open the series
with a talk titled "If James Madison
Was the Father of the Constitution, Why Was He Such a Reluctant
Parent? "
October 18 by Ron Finucane, "How
to Execute a Corpse: The ‘Trial’ of St. Thomas Becket."
November 15 Matt Sutton, "Sex and God in the City of
Angels: The Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson."
January 23, 2007 Carl R. Osthaus, "They Love a Man
in the Country: Dixie Demagogues and Southern Politics, 1900-1950"
February 21, 2007 Don Matthews, "The Historical Origins
of the Modern Jihadist Movement."
March 20, 2007. Bruce Zellers, "Marking the Primrose
Path to the Future: Harry Truman, Presidential Power, and
the Limited War in Korea."
The 2005 lecture series(2005
History comes alive brochure):
September 27, 2005 Sara E. Chapman, "French
Colonies and the Fur Trade: The Founding of Detroit in
1701."
October 19, 2005. Karen
A. J. Miller, "Worshipping St. Republican: Architecture,
Urban Space and Republican Politics in the 1920s."
November 15, 2005. Daniel J. Clark, "Old
Truths, New Truths and Untruths: Revisiting the Origins
of the Cold War."
January 24, 2006. Derek K. Hastings, "Municipal
Memory: Negotiating the Legacy of the Holocaust in Postwar
West Germany."
February 21, 2006. Mary C. Karasch, "Frontier Life
in Central Brazil before 1835 (an illustrated lecture)."
March 22, 2006. Jace Crouch. "Lord of the Rings,
Narnia and the Middle Ages: Medievalism in J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis"
For more information on the remaining lectures in this series, please consult
the History Comes Alive Brochure.
2004 Series (2004 History comes alive brochure):
Carl R. Osthaus. "Who's
Buried in Grant's Tomb? Reflections on the Good General
- Bad President Enigma." presented March 22,
2005
Dr. Linda Benson. "Shades of Genghis
Khan: The New 'Great Game' Between China,
Mongolia and Russia" presented February
16, 2005
Professor Sean Farrell Moran. "One
Man's Patriot is Another's Terrorist: Reflections on Violence
and Nationalism in Irish History" presented January 20,
2005
Ronald C. Finucane. "The Victorian
Seance: Faith and Fraud in the Late 19th Century" presented
on October 27, 2004.