Public Lecture Series

Join us this fall as we 'Remember America' through a free and public monthly lecture series.

The "Remembering America: From Colonization to the Cold War" is a 9-month lecture series featuring historians from across the region. Using Paul Johnson's "A History of the American People" as a chronological guide, our series identifies key events, people and moments in American history. We invite you to attend our free, public events.

Past Events in this Series

Faith, Fortune and the Founding of English America »

Presented by Dr. Lorri Glover, co-author of The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, which considers the colonization of Virginia and Bermuda.
Sept. 7, 6 p.m., Filson Historical Society
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The Constitutional Legacy of Thomas Jefferson »

Presented by R.B. Bernstein, author of Thomas Jefferson, a concise biography of the leader's triumphs, contradictions and failures.
Sept. 26, 6 p.m., Chao Auditorium
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Power, Persuasion & the Imperial Republic »

Presented by Dr. Andrew R.L. Cayton, co-author ofDominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000, a work that identifies war as the continuous characteristic of American history.
Oct. 27, 6 p.m., Chao Auditorium
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Jacksonian Democracy and Jacksonian America »

Presented by Dr. Daniel M. Feller, author of The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 and editor and director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson housed at the University of Tennessee.
Nov. 16, 6 p.m., Chao Auditorium
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First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War »

Presented by Dr. Joan E. Cashin, author of First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War. Though she publicly supported the South, Varina Davis’s term as “First Lady” was plagued by rumors of her disaffection.
Dec. 8, 6 p.m., Chao Auditorium
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