Past Lampros Lecture Events
For more information contact the Department of History at 801-626-6706
2024
Gregory Downs
Professor of History, University of California, Davis
“Nat Turner: Enslaved Prophet
2023 91¶ÌÊÓƵ
Caleb McDaniel
Professor of History, Rice University
“A Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America”
2022
Elizabeth Varon
Professor of History, University of Virginia:
“Southern Dissent and Amnesty: the Civil War Ethics of Loyalty"
2019
Andrew Delbanco
Professor of American Studies, Columbia University:
"The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves & the Struggle for America's Soul"
2018
Steven Hahn
Professor of History, New York University:
"Reconstruction & the American Political Tradition"
2018
Georg Schild
Professor of History, University of Tübingen:
“Remembering War the American Way”
2017
Don Doyle
McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina:
“The International Dimensions of the Civil War”
2016
Harold Holzer
Professor and leading authority on the Civil War:
“Lincoln and the Uncivil War on Immigration”
2016
Mort Künstler
Renowned Civil War artist:
“Civil War Stories”
2015
Nina Silber
Professor of History, Boston University:
“A Passionate Addiction to Lincoln: The Great Emancipator in 1930's America”
2014
Lisa Brady
Professor of History, Boise State University:
“Down and Dirty in Dixie: An Environmental History of the U.S. Civil War”
2013
Walter Johnson
Winthrop Professor of History, African, and African-American Studies Harvard University: “River of Dark Dreams: Slavery & Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley ”
2012
Craig L. Symonds
Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval Academy:
“Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief: Three Examples”
2011
William W. Freehling
Senior Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities:
“Excruciating Labor:
How the Seccessionist Minority of Southerners Broke Up the Union”
2010
Donald Stoker
Professor of Strategy & Politics, U.S. Naval War College:
“The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War”
2008
George C. Rable
Professor, University of Alabama:
"God as General: Was There a Religious History of the American Civil War?"
2007
James S. Robbins
Professor, Trinity University:
"Last in Their Class: The Goats of West Point and the American Civil War"
2006
Michael Holt
Professor, University of Virginia:
"A Time of Uncertainty: The Civil War Era and America's Two-Party System"
2005
Howard Jones
Professor, University of Alabama:
"Toward a More Perfect Union: Lincoln and the Death of Slavery"
2004
Carol Reardon
Professor, Penn State University:
"Pickett's Charge in American Memory"
2003
David Brion Davis
Professor, Yale University:
"Some New Thoughts on Events Leading to the Civil War"
2002
William C. Davis
Professor, Virginia Tech:
"A New Look at Confederate Democracy"
2001
Eric Foner
Professor, Columbia University:
"The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of American Freedom"
2000
James M. McPherson
Professor, Princeton University:
"Was Blood Thicker than Water? Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War"