2008 Lectures
Lectures
Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Trustees Lecture
Charles Mann, "Tobacco, Mosquito Slave: Colonial Virginia and the Dawn of Globalization"
10 April 2008
Past Christian Lectures
J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr.,
Lecture Ken Burns, "The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945"
23 October 2008
Past Wilkinson Lectures Alexander W. Weddell Trustees Lecture
Charles F. Bryan, Jr., "History Begins at Home: A Personal Journey"
19 November 2008
Past Weddell Lectures
Banner Lectures Series
Dean King
"Skeletons of the Zahara"
January 24
Lauranett L. Lee
"Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia"
February 14
Robert Tilton
"Lee & Grant"
February 28
Christopher Einolf
"George Thomas: Virginian for the Union"
March 6
Joseph Glatthaar
"General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse"
March 21
Jay Winik
"The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800"
April 17
Robert K. Krick
"Lee and the Historians in the Age of the Anti-Hero"
May 22
Alan Pell Crawford
"Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson"
May 29
Keith Gibson
"Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor"
June 12
Paul A. Levengood
"From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: The Transformation
of the South in the Twentieth Century"
July 24
Robert E. Wright
"One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe"
September 4
Helen McGehee
"To Be A Dancer: Helen McGehee on Modern Dance"
September 25
VHS/WCVE
"Witness to a Century"
October 30
Jeffrey Ruggles
"Photography in Virginia"
November 13
Harold Holzer
"Lincoln: President Elect"
December 4
Gallery Talks
Lauranett L. Lee
"Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia"
February 13
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Lee and Grant"
March 26
James C. Kelly
"Virginians at Work"
April 9
J. Roderick Moore
"Moonshining in the Blue Ridge"
May 28
James C. Kelly
"Curator's Favorites from The Story of Virginia on its 10th Anniversary"
June 18
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Heads and Tales: Portraits of Outstanding Virginians"
July 16
Andrew Gladwell
"A Creative Dynasty: Four Generations of Virginia Women"
September 17
Jeffrey Ruggles
"Photography in Virginia"
November 12
Keith Egloff
"Solving History’s Mysteries"
December 3
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