Bruce Dierenfield is Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professor of American History, director of the All-College Honors Program, and director of the African American Experience at Canisius College. He is author, most recently, of The Civil Rights Movement (rev. ed., 2008) and the prizewinning The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (2007).

Lecture topics:

• The Epic School Prayer Case of Engel v. Vitale (1962)
• “The Most Hated Woman in America”: Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s Atheist Crusade Against Religion
• Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
• Ten Myths of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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