Upcoming Lectures
All lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by David W. Blight
Sponsored by New Bedford Historical Society
Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 7:00 PM
First Unitarian Church
71 Eighth St.
New Bedford, MA 02740
For more information, contact Loretta Blake lblake@umassd.edu
Baseball and Constitutionalism
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Paul Finkelman
Sponsored by Lurleen B. Wallace Community College
Monday, September 23, 2019
Lurleen B. Wallace Community College
LBWCC Greenville Campus Conference Center
750 Greenville Bypass
Greenville, AL
For more information, contact Tori Norris tnorris@lbwcc.edu ph. 334-881-2215
Preserve the Baltimore Uprising: A Case Study in Public History Practice
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Denise Meringolo
Sponsored by Department of American Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 6:00 PM
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Sanford Room, Warren Smith Library
Geneva, NY
For more information, contact Elizabeth Belanger belanger@hws.edu
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–1782
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Elizabeth Fenn
Sponsored by Department of History, Virginia Military Institute
Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 8:00 PM
Virginia Military Institute
Hall of Valor, Marshall Hall
Lexington, VA
For more information, contact Turk McCleskey mccleskeynt@vmi.edu
America First? Isolationism and U.S. Global Engagement in Historical Perspective
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Christopher McKnight Nichols
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 10:00 AM
and 2:00pm Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN
http://www.mnhs.org
$16/MNHS Members receive 20% discount
Don't Blame the Workers: The Myth of Working-Class Conservatism
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Dorothy Sue Cobble
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 10:00 AM
and 2:00pm Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN
http://www.mnhs.org
$16/MNHS Members receive 20% discount
Courting Trouble? An Unadulterated History of Marriage
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Stephanie Coontz
Sponsored by Prairie Village Museum
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Rugby High School
1123 S Main Ave
Rugby, ND 58368
https://www.prairievillagemuseum.com/
Why They Marched: Celebrating the Centennial of Women's Suffrage
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Susan Ware
Sponsored by Avon Free Public Library
Saturday, November 16, 2019, 3:00 PM
Avon Free Public Library
Community Room, 281 Country Club Rd.
Avon, CT
For more information, contact Tina Panik tpanik@avonctlibrary.info https://www.avonctlibrary.info/
Sex and God in the City of the Angels: The Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson and American Culture
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Matthew Avery Sutton
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Augustana University
Sioux Falls, SD
For more information, contact Matthew Pehl Matthew.Pehl@augie.edu
Pocahontas and the English Boys: Fluid Identities in Early Virginia
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Boca Grande Community Center
For more information, contact Roger Lewis crogerlewis@gmail.com ph. 941-964-0827
Recy Taylor and the Roots of the #MeToo Movement
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Danielle L. McGuire
Sponsored by Evelyn Lincoln Institute for Ethics and Society
Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 7:00 PM
Mercyhurst University,
Erie, PA
For more information, contact Verna Ehret vehret@mercyhurst.edu ph. 814-824-2075
The Role of "Big Government" in American Life
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Steven Conn
Saturday, February 22, 2020, 10:00 AM
and 2:00pm Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN
http://www.mnhs.org
$16/MNHS Members receive 20% discount
The "Immigration Problem," 1917 and 2017
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Katherine Benton-Cohen
Sponsored by History Graduate Student Association of LSU
Friday, March 6, 2020, 7:00 PM
Louisiana State University
French House-Ogden Honors College of LSU
Baton Rouge, LA
Yes (Free to LSU staff and students)
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Monday, March 30, 2020
Weber State University
Ogden, UT
The Rise and Fall of an American Labor Party: The Democrats from the New Deal to the Present
An OAH Distinguished Lecture by Michael Kazin
Thursday, April 30, 2020, 3:00 PM
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fireside Lounge, Student Union
For more information, contact Prof. Joseph Rodriguez, Chair, Department of History joerod@uwm.edu ph. 414-229-3963 www.uwm.edu/history/
