Trending Lectures
Know(ing) When You See It: Pornography and the Sexual Culture of U.S. Army Camps in the Civil War
The Heart of American Darkness
A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War
The Hidden History of White Violence and the Response of Black Police
Environmental History and the National Parks
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.)
This program greatly facilitates our annual history lecture series, allowing us to bring in very high-quality speakers at relatively low cost while supporting an important organization. Thanks!
— Steve Wagner, Department of Social Sciences, Missouri Southern State University
About the Speaker
Don H. Doyle is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina and the author of two recent volumes on the American Civil War and Reconstruction that break out of the familiar national narrative to recast these American events within a fresh cosmopolitan framework. The Cause of ...
Featured Lecture
Secession as an International Phenomenon
Half the nations of the modern day arrived in what we cheerfully call the family of nations through ugly political divorces, that involved violent rebellions, civil wars, foreign intervention. This lecture views the American Revolution and the American Civil War as major historical precedents on sec...