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Explore America’s rich and fascinating history with some of its best historians at the History Center’s premier lecture series.
History Forum 2009-2010: In Search of a Better World
The Lakota leader Crazy Horse said that to guide others through a transformation, “A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”
This season’s History Forum will explore the lives and actions of seven people whose efforts to envision and affect profound change still guide our national conversations about justice, race, equality, sovereignty, and personal liberty and responsibility today.
Chief Justice John Marshall
October 17, 2009
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall wielded the previously untapped potential of his position to wage a lifelong battle against divisive regional politics and to assert the primacy of the U.S. Constitution and the unifying power of the law. With R. Kent Newmyer, University of Connecticut Law School.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
November 7, 2009
Envisioning a world guided by the traditional Lakota values of fortitude, generosity, kinship and wisdom, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull inspired their people to resist tyranny and defied America to live up to its promises of freedom for all. With Donald Fixico, Arizona State University.
Benjamin Franklin
December 12, 2009
Benjamin Franklin focused most of his prodigious energy on politics, acquiring deep insight into the ways human nature complicates government, and developing a clear-eyed and still relevant concept of the imperative role citizens must play in maintaining liberty and democracy. With Lorraine Pangle, University of Texas-Austin.
General George Marshall
January 30, 2010
General George Marshall successfully directed our armed forces through World War II, sold a battle-weary nation on the massive Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, and guided the United States into a new international role that still challenges us today. With Mark Stoler, University of Vermont.
Margaret Sanger
February 20, 2010
Convinced that effective family planning could help free American women and their families from poverty, Margaret Sanger spearheaded a 50-year crusade to legalize birth control and permanently altered conversations about personal liberty in the United States. With Ellen Chesler, Hunter College.
Frederick Douglass
March 6, 2010
Believing that ending slavery was the only way to save America’s national soul, influential social critic and former slave Frederick Douglass used the power of words to persuade his reluctant countrymen to unshackle the United States from its most terrible institution. With David Blight, Yale University.
This series is made possible in part by the Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Fund through the Charles A. Lindbergh Foundation and by the Maurice Stans Fund.
