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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.)
My experience of working with the program coordinator was wonderful. She helped us every step of the way and gave clear guidance. I highly recommend this program; it was a great experience.
— Alison McCaffrey, First Congregational Church of Cheshire, CT
About the Speaker
Matthew Avery Sutton is the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Washington State University. He is the author of Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (2019), American Apocalypse: A History of Modern...
Featured Lecture
Trump and Evangelical America: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Religious Right
This talk focuses on the rise of a colorful and charismatic group of radical Protestants and their impact on American politics across the early 20th century. Sutton explores how this group felt the United States was besieged by Satanic forceslike secularism, family breakdown and government encroachm...