Trending Lectures
How Moderation Enabled the Ratification of the Constitution
Racial Capitalism, Indian Hating, and the Imperium of St. Louis
Cuban Miami and the Rise of the New Right: The Uses of Transnational History
1965: The Year the Fifties Ended and the Sixties Began
The Second Way of War: Preserving Male Honor in the Wars of Indian Removal
Honoring Native American Heritage
The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program features 42 speakers specializing in Native American history.
OAH Lecturers can be booked as guest speakers for in-person or virtual keynote addresses and lectures, book talks, to headline special events, conferences, and historical commemorations, and to lead workshops and professional development events.
Virtual OAH Lectures Offered
The Distinguished Lectureship Program has coordinated hundreds of virtual events for colleges, libraries, schools, historical societies, faith-based organizations, professional development workshops, museums, and community organizations. Virtual format options include live online presentations with Q&A, custom-recorded talks, as well as hybrid events (for an in-person audience and virtual attendees.)
Excellent resource for speakers and educational institutions! I will definitely be reaching out to book another speaker.
— Heather Bobrowicz, South Texas College Library, TX
About the Speaker
Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997), winner of the OAH Avery O. Craven Award; Debating Slavery: Economy and...
Featured Lecture
A Sensory History of the American Civil War
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. Based on his recent book, The Smell of Bat...