Alexander W. Weddell Trustees Lectures

Tony Horwitz
"Midnight Rising: John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Start of the Civil War"
November 16, 2011
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Gary W. Gallagher
"The Real Lost Cause: The Idea of Union in the Memory of the Civil War"
November 17, 2010
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Josiah Bunting III
"George Marshall, His Men, and the Recovery of Europe"
November 18, 2009
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Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
"History Begins at Home: A Personal Journey"
November 19, 2008
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Rick Atkinson
"The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944"
November 14, 2007

Melvin I. Urofsky
"A New Look at an Old Institution: The Virginia Historical Society since 1945"
November 15, 2006

Ronald C. White, Jr.
"The Eloquent President"
November 16, 2005

William C. Davis
"The Making of the Confederacy: The Birth of the Confederate Government"
November 17, 2004

Edward L. Ayers
"In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863"
November 19, 2003

Nelson D. Lankford
"The Last Days of the Confederate Capital"
November 20, 2002

Bonny Angelo
"To Win the Presidency, First Choose the Right Mother"
November 14, 2001

Fred Anderson
"Crucible of War"
November 15, 2000

Joseph J. Ellis
"What Jefferson Did: A Meditation on the Man and the Myth"
November 17, 1999

Ronald L. Heinemann
"Why Save Private Ryan? The Effect of World War II on Virginia and the Nation"
November 18, 1998

Drew Gilpin Faust
"Writing Women into the Civil War"
November 19, 1997

William Kelso
"Jamestown Rediscovery II"
November 19, 1997

Drew Gilpin Faust
"Writing Women into the Civil War"
November 20, 1996

Roger Mudd
November 15, 1995

James McPherson
"Why They Fought"
November 16, 1994

Donald Meinig
"The First Transcontinental Railroad"
November 17, 1993

Edwin Yoder
November 18, 1992

James W. Symington
"The Civil War: A Family Affair"
November 6, 1991

Mary Tyler Cheek
"My! How Things Have Changed: Thoughts on the Twentieth-Century Commonwealth by a Virginian"
November 7, 1990

Robert V. Remini
"Henry Clay"
October 25, 1989

Roger G. Kennedy
"What the Greek Revival Really Revived"
October 27, 1988

Daniel P. Jordan
"Richmond, First City of the Confederacy"
December 3, 1987

Merrill D. Peterson
"Jefferson, the West, and the Enlightenment Vision"
November 19, 1986

James J. Kilpatrick
"Newspapering in Virginia"
October 16, 1985

Daniel J. Boorstin
"Our Unpredictable Discoverers"
October 23, 1984

E. Wayne Craven
"Virginia Portraits: Iconography, Style, and Social Context"
October 19, 1983