2010 Lectures and Classes
Lectures
Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Trustees Lecture
Elizabeth and Michael Norman, "Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath"
May 6
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Past Christian Lectures
J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr., Lecture
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, "Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice"
October 19
Past Wilkinson Lectures
Alexander W. Weddell Trustees Lecture
Gary W. Gallagher, "The Real Lost Cause: The Idea of Union in the Memory of the Civil War"
November 17
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Past Weddell Lectures
Banner Lectures Series
Noah Andre Trudeau
"Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership"
January 28
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Muffie Meyer
"Dolley Madison: A Documentary"
February 4
Cosponsored with James Madison's Montpelier
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Robert M. Poole
"On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery"
February 18
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Michael Kranish
"Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War"
March 4
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Melvin I. Urofsky
"Louis Brandeis: An American Legal Giant"
March 25
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Eugene P. Trani
"Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century"
April 1
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E. Lee Shepard
"Hidden Treasures: A Short History of the Mary Cusits Lee Trunks"
April 22
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James Horn
"A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke"
May 27
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Jeffrey W. McClurken
"'Take Care of the Living': Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia"
June 10
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Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle (USA, Ret.)
"Memories of World War II"
July 22
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Scott W. Berg
"Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed
Washington, D.C."
September 23
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Gerald P. McCarthy
"Virginia Environmental Endowment: Leadership, Leverage, and Legacy"
October 7
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Kate Chenery Tweedy
"Secretariat"
October 13
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Marie Tyler-McGraw
"Virginia and Liberia"
October 28
Cosponsored with The Richmond Forum in conjuction
with its November 6, 2010, program, featuring President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia
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Scott Reynolds Nelson
"Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend"
November 4
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Gregg Kimball, Jackie Frost, and Sheryl Warner
"'We Shall Not Be Moved': Virginia Songs of Labor"
December 1
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John Peters
"Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery"
December 9
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Gallery Talks
Lauranett L. Lee
"John Brown’s Memory in the African American Community"
February 10
Paul A. Levengood
"Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press"
May 26
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Bizarre Bits: Oddities from the Collection"
July 14
Jeffrey Ruggles
"Organized Labor in Virginia"
September 8
Paul A. Levengood
"Virginia Rocks!: The History of Rockabilly in the Commonwealth"
October 21
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Witches, Ghosts, and Ghastly Objects: Oddities Revisited"
October 29
William M. S. Rasmussen
"The Story of Virginia: The Late Colonial Era"
November 10
Paul A. Levengood
"Organized Labor in Virginia"
December 1
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Robert Holsworth
"Virginia Politics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
January 14, 21, and 28, and February 4
Edward Lengel
"George Washington at War"
February 11
Will Rieley
"Virginia Landscapes: Restoring Historic Gardens in the Old Dominion"
March 11 and 18
Matt Laird, Nick Lucketti, and Garrett Fesler
"History from the Ground Up: Exploring Themes in Virginia Archaeology"
April 1, 8, and 15
A. Wilson Greene
"Exploring the Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville Campaigns"
April 22 and 29
Robert P. Winthrop
"Richmond's Old West End: From Belvidere Street to the Belt Line"
May 13 and 20
Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle (USA, Ret.)
"George C. Marshall: Exceptional American"
September 9 and 16
Elizabeth O'Leary
"American Art from Colonial Times to 1950"
September 30 and October 7
John Coski
"The Civil War on the James River"
October 28
Keith T. Egloff
"First Virginians: Native Americans before European Contact"
November 11 and 18
Robert Holsworth
"Virginia Politics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
December 2 and 9
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