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Banner Lectures (1989– )
See also: Upcoming Banner Lectures
Maurie D. McInnis
"Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade"
January 26
Samuel K. Roberts
"When the Sun Stood Still: Reflections on the Reverend John Jasper in His Bicentennial Year"
February 23
David O. Stewart
"American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America"
March 15
Helen C. Rountree
"Before it was Virginia: Setting the Stage"
March 16
Jeremy Black
"Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871"
March 28
Jill Titus
"Brown's Battleground in Prince Edward County, Virginia"
April 12
Terri Fisher
"Lost Communities of Virginia"
May 3
Patrick Mooney
"The U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood, June 1918"
June 14
Susan Kern
"The Jeffersons at Shadwell"
January 13
Edward Lengel
"Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory"
February 24
Daniel Crofts
"'The Diary of a Public Man' and Abraham Lincoln"
March 3
Gregg Kimball
"American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War"
March 9 (7pm) and March 10 (noon)
Cosponsored with Richmond National Battlefield Park
Douglas R. Egerton
"Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War"
March 24
Nelson D. Lankford
"The Crooked Road to Civil War"
April 13 (7pm) and April 14 (noon) 2011
Cosponsored with Richmond National Battlefield Park
Lorena Walsh
"Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763"
April 21
Cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia
John C. Waugh
"Lincoln and McClellan"
May 12
Barnet Schecter
"George Washington's America"
June 9
Cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia
Todd Kliman
"The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine"
June 30
Brooks Smith and Wayne Dementi
"Facts & Legends of Sports in Richmond"
July 14
Robert H. Gillette
The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany
August 4
A. E. Dick Howard
"The Constitution of Virginia"
September 8
Graham Woodlief and Barbara Ramos
"The First Thanksgiving"
October 13
Dr. Adrian Wheat
"Civil War Medicine"
October 26 (7pm) and October 27 (noon)
Cosponsored with Richmond National Battlefield Park
Adam Goodheart
1861: The Civil War Awakening
November 30
Timothy Sedore
An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments
December 8
Noah Andre Trudeau
"Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership"
January 28
Muffie Meyer
"Dolley Madison: A Documentary"
February 4
(Cosponsored with James Madison's Montpelier)
Robert Poole
"On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery"
February 18
Michael Kranish
"Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War"
March 4
Melvin Urofsky
"Louis Brandeis: An American Legal Giant"
March 25
Eugene P. Trani
"Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century"
April 1
E. Lee Shepard
"Hidden Treasures: A Short History of the Mary Custis Lee Trunks"
April 22
James Horn
"A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke"
May 27
Jeffrey W. McClurken
"Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia"
June 10
Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle (USA, Ret.)
"Memories of World War II"
July 22
Scott W. Berg
"Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C."
September 23
Gerald P. McCarthy
"Virginia Environmental Endowment: Leadership, Leverage, and Legacy"
October 7
Kate Chenery Tweedy
"Secretariat"
October 13
Marie Tyler-McGraw
"An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia"
October 28
Scott Reynolds Nelson
"Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend"
November 4
Gregg Kimball, Jackie Frost, and Sheryl Warner
"We Shall Not Be Moved": Virginia Songs of Labor
December 2
John Peters
"Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery"
December 9
Robert J. Norrell
"Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington"
February 5
Denise Bethel
"When History Becomes Art: Some Adventures with Photographs at Auction"
March 5
Joan Cashin
"First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War"
March 26
(Cosponsored with MOC)
David Brown and Thane Harpole
"Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten Landscapes of
Gloucester County"
April 2
(Cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in Virginia)
Lorri Glover
"The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America"
April 16
(Cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in Virginia)
John Ferling
"The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon"
May 28
(Cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in Virginia)
Phyllis and Paul Galanti
"For Better or For Worse: The Journey of a POW and His Wife"
June 11
Ray McAllister
"Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks"
July 23
Lt. Gen. G. R. Christmas
"Battle of Hue City, South Vietnam, 1968"
August 20
Edward G. Lengel
"Meuse-Argonne, 1918: the Battle That Ended World War I "
September 17
Julian Hudson
"Prestwould: Gracious Living on the American Frontier, 1790–1830"
October 1
William M. S. Rasmussen
"William M. S. Rasmussen"
October 15
Margaret Bemiss and Will Rieley
"Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservation Work of The Garden Club of Virginia"
November 4
Anna Gibson Holloway
""So Ends This Day": An Illustrated Update on the Life and Times of the USS Monitor, from 1861 to Yesterday"
November 12
George Grayson
"Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? The Struggle with Drugs and Thugs in U.S.-Mexican Relations"
December 3
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
A. Wilson Greene
"Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War"
January 25
Theodore DeLaney
"Telling Our Stories: School Desegregation in Western Virginia"
February 22
William Marvel
"Mr. Lincoln Goes to War"
March 28
Michael Kammen
"Visual Shock: The Role of Controversial Art in American Culture"
April 12
James C. Kelly
"Jamestown 1607, Québec 1608, Santa Fe 1609: Three North American Beginnings"
April 19
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
"Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters"
May 10
Helen Rountree
"Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: What Became of Them and Why?"
June 14
Susan Dunn
"Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, & the Decline of Virginia"
June 21
John Ferling
"General George Washington: Fortunate to Have Had Him, Lucky to Have Survived Him"
July 19
Paul A. Levengood
"The Business of Virginia Has Always Been Business"
September 13
Kenneth Cohen
"Decoding the Meanings of Thoroughbred Horse Racing in Early America, 1790–1840"
October 18
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Lee and Grant"
November 1
Josiah Bunting III
"Who is Buried in Grant's Tomb"
November 8
William Kelso
"Jamestown: The Buried Truth"
November 29
Heather Andrea Williams
"Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom"
February 2
Harold Holzer
"Art in the Civil War South"
March 16
(Joint sponsorship with Museum of the Confederacy)
Peter R. Henriques
"'A Votary to Love': George Washington's Relationship with Sally Cary Fairfax"
April 6
Peter S. Carmichael
"Defending Virginia, the South, and the Union: Young Virginians during the Civil War Era"
April 13
Simon Schama
"Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution"
May 23
(Joint sponsorship with English Speaking Union of Richmond)
Thomas Pickering
"The Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities"
May 25
(Joint sponsorship with World Affairs Council)
Warren Hofstra
"The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley"
June 8
Michael Quinn
"James Madison and Religion"
June 22
Richard Labunski
"James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights"
August 3
Oliver Everett
"Treasures and Curiosities from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle"
October 11
Calder Loth
"Menokin: Virginia's Most Unusual Preservation Adventure"
November 16
Melvin Ely
"Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War"
February 2
Lorraine Gates Schuyler
"The Weight of Their Votes': The Effects of Woman Suffrage in Virginia"
March 10
Ernest B. Furgurson
"Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War"
March 24
Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle
"When War Came This Way: Women's Experiences during the Civil War in Virginia"
April 7
James C. Kelly
"Cussing Cousins: John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson"
May 12
Peter Hatch
"Thomas Jefferson and the Hortobotany of the Lewis and Clark Expedition"
May 19
Helen Rountree
‟Pocahontas, Powhatan, and Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown"
May 26
Don Wilkinson
"The Most Good for the Confederacy"
June 16
Ann Blackman
"Wild Rose: Civil War Spy Rose Greenhow"
July 21
Elizabeth L. O'Leary
"From Morning to Night: Domestic Service at Maymont House and the Gilded Age South"
September 8
Adam Nicolson
"Seize the Fire: Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar"
September 11
John Coski
"The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem"
October 6
Michael W. Kauffman
"American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies"
November 11
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.
"Divorce in Antebellum Virginia"
January 15
Kara Miles Turner
"'Liberating Lifescripts'": Prince Edward County, Va., and the Roots of Brown v. Board"
February 19
Liz Varon
"Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy"
March 4
Joe Thompson and Bob Carlin
"The African American String Band Tradition in the Upper South"
March 13
Oliver Everett
"Windsor Castle: Its History and Occupants, 1080–2002"
April 21
John Pagan
"Ann Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia"
May 13
Helen Rountree
"Powhatan, Pocahontas, and Opechancanough, Part I"
June 15
Sharon Smith
"Lindbergh"
June 29
Peter Henriques
"Reluctant Enemies: The Increasingly Strained Relationship Between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson"
July 9
(cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia)
Kevin Concannon
"Salvadore Dali in Virginia"
July 29
Henry Wiencek
"George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America"
September 9
David Johnson
"Douglas Southall Freeman, Internationalist"
October 28
(cosponsored with the World Affairs Council)
James C. Kelly
"American Visions of Liberty & Freedom"
November 4
Rhys Isaac
"Colonial Dissenters and the Evolution of Freedom of Religion"
November 11
(sponsored jointly with Polegreen Foundation)
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.
"Divorce in Antebellum Virginia"
January 15
Jeremy Black
"The American Revolution from the British Perspective"
January 23
Peter John Wescombe
"The World-Wide Allied Intelligence Net in WWII: The Foundation of the Special Relationship"
February 6
Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
"Annus Mirabilis: The Strange Year of 1811"
February 13
Lauranett L. Lee
"A Dream Deferred: the African American Experience in World War II"
February 27
Eugene P. Trani
"The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations"
March 6
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal"
April 10
Daniel Thorp
"Cycling after Lewis & Clark"
July 8
Bill Evans
"The Banjo in Virginia"
July 29
Paul A. Lombardo
"The Eugenics Movement in Virginia"
September 4
David Nicandri
"Lewis and Clark Stories for Our Time"
September 26
Larry I. Bland
"Soldier of Peace: George C. Marshall"
October 9
Jeremy Black
"World War II Reconsidered"
October 30
Jeffrey Ruggles
"The Unboxing of Henry Brown"
November 13
Bob Carlin
"The Banjo in Virginia"
January 24
Barbara Clark Smith
"The Forgotten History of Elizabeth Keckley: From Virginia Slave to the Lincoln White House"
February 7
Philip J. Schwarz
"Was Virginia the Mother of Slavery in North America?"
March 7
Jay Winik
"April 1865: The Month that Saved America"
April 11
James Srodes
"Benjamin Franklin-Our Most Essential Founding Father"
May 9
Joanne Ciulla
"What History Tells Us About the Meaning of Work"
June 13
Kathryn Fuller
"Richmond Movie-Going and Theaters in the 1920s"
July 11
Bruce Bustard
"Picturing the Century"
September 12
Fred Voss
"Portraits of the Presidents"
November 7
Nelson D. Lankford
"The Last Days of the Confederate Capital"
December 12
Keith D. Dixon
"'Some Kindred Spirit': Douglas Southall Freeman Interprets World War II"
January 11
Wayne Dementi, Elisabeth Dementi, and Corrine Hudgins
"The Photography of Dementi Studio"
January 25
Lauranett L. Lee
"Another Voice from the South: Recovering the Power of our History"
February 8
Larry I. Bland
"Managing for Victory: George C. Marshall and the Administration of the Allied Military in World War II"
March 15
Calder Loth, William M. S. Rasmussen, and Bryan Green
"Lost Virginia: The Vanished Architectural Landscape"
May 3
Robert Winthrop
"Learning from Monument Avenue"
May 24
Fred Anderson
"A Rusty Piece of Iron: The Virginia Baptist Contribution to the Struggle for Religious Liberty"
June 14
Hunter H. McGuire, Jr.
"Hollywood Cemetery"
June 28
Robert Holsworth
"Gubernatorial Elections in Virginia: Trends, Issues, and Forecasts"
September 13
Melvin I. Urofsky
"Saving Mr. Jefferson's House: The Levy Family & Monticello"
October 4
Billy Kennedy
"The Scots-Irish in America"
October 18
Michael Kammen
"Robert Gwathmey: A Virginia Vision of African-American Life"
January 14
Lauranett L. Lee
"Exploring Emancipation: Adjusting to Freedom in Charlottesville, 1865–1877"
February 10
Langhorne Gibson
"Cabell's Canal: The Story of the James River and Kanawha"
March 2
Grady W. Powell
"A Two-World Struggle: A History of Gillfield Baptist Church"
April 6
Ernest B. Furgurson
"Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864"
June 29
George Gilliam
"Massive Resistance"
September
James C. Kelly and William M. S. Rasmussen
"The Virginia Landscape"
October 5
Mary Buford Hitz
"Never Ask Permission: A Biography of Elisabeth Scott Bocock"
November 16
Hunter H. McGuire, Jr.
"Permanent Richmonders: Hollywood Cemetery at 150" (repeat of 18 Nov. 1999 lecture)
November 30
Gregg Kimball
"Working-Class Richmond before the Civil War"
December 14
William Kelso
"Jamestown Rediscovery"
January 21
Richard Groover
"The Forgotten Fourteen"
February 4
William M. S. Rasmussen
"First in the Hearts of his Countrymen: The Forgotten George Washington"
March 4
Elizabeth Varon
"Spy Turned Scalawag: Elizabeth Van Lew and Reconstruction in Richmond"
March 25
Dean Shostak
"The Music of George Washington's Era"
May 20
Hunter H. McGuire, Jr.
"Permanent Richmonders: Hollywood Cemetery at 150"
November 18
Graham Hood
"Houdon's Washington"
December 14
Susan Stein
"Recapturing Thomas Jefferson's Lost Monticello, 1834–1997"
February 19
Edward L. Ayers
"Battlefield and Home Front in Virginia's Civil War"
March 26
Blake N. Morris
"Shape Note Singing and The Sacred Harp"
April 16
Marley R. Brown III
"Architectural Permanence, Town-Building, and the Founding of Williamsburg: Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Jamestown and Middle Plantation"
June 18
Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
"From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Dr. Spock: Books That Changed the Course of American History"
July 23
Kara Miles Turner
"Brown in Black and White: The Role of Prince Edward County in the Desegregation of Southern Schools"
September 17
David Kennerly
"Photo Op: Photographs of Events that Shaped Our Times"
October 15
Robert Winthrop
"Historic Richmond Architecture"
November 19
Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
"The Eye of the Storm: The Lost Civil War Drawings of a Union Officer"
February 27
Melvin I. Urofsky
"Commonwealth and Community: The Jewish Experience in Virginia"
March 18
Robin L. Ryder
"Home Alone: "The Stories of Two Single Women and Their Farms in Nineteenth-Century Virginia"
April 17
Peter J. Hatch
"Thomas Jefferson, Gardener"
May 15
Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
"The Lessons of World War II"
September 3
Margaret T. Peters and John O. Peters
"Courthouse Architecture in Virginia Since the Civil War"
September 18
James O. Horton
"The Life and Times of Edward Ambush: Doing Family and Community History"
October 2
Pegram Johnson III
"Sporting Parsons, British and American: 'Twixt the Saddle and the Ground, the Sinner Has Salvation Found'"
October 23
Ira Berlin
"Notions of Freedom"
February 15
James Smylie
"From the Anglican Establishment to the Christian Coalition"
March 14
John Dixon Hunt
"Sites, Sights, and Insights: Gardens and the Picturesque"
April 18
Martin Kirwan King
"It's Alive! Menokin Yesterday and Tomorrow,
The Revival of a Great Virginia House"
June 20
Cynthia McLeod
"Civil War Battlefield Preservation"
September 5
Ernest B. Furgurson
"Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War"
October 3
Spencer Crew
"The Smithsonian at 150"
October 24
Nelson D. Lankford
"The Last American Aristocrat: David Bruce and American Diplomacy"
November 14
Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.
"The Color of Sweat: Afro-Virginians and the Civil War"
February 16
John Egerton
"Speak Now Against the Day"
February 21
Helen Rountree
"Pocahontas and the Women She Grew Up With"
March 16
Christie Coleman Matthews
"Where Do We Go From Here? Interpreting the African-American Experience"
June 15
Carl Lounsbury
"The Structure of Justice: The Courthouses of Early Virginia"
September 21
A. Gregg Roeber
"The Germanna Germans: Culture and Community in a New Land"
January 20
Vonita W. Foster
"The School Crisis in Prince Edward County: A Glimpse by a Participant"
February 17
Joan Cashin
"Southern Women and the Frontier Experience"
March 10
Michael S. Mayer
"Reflections on Ike: A Reassessment of the Eisenhower Presidency"
April 14
Philip J. Schwarz
"The Exodus of Virginians from the Slave South"
April 21
Camille Wells
"Reading between the Lines: On the Trail of Early Virginia Architecture"
June 16
L. Daniel Mouer
"Rebecca's Children: Old and New Myths About Indians in Virginia's History and Archaeology"
October 20
Lonnie Bunch
"African-American History in American Museums Today"
February 18
Cindy Aron
"The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement"
March 18
Mark Wenger
"Thomas Jefferson and the House Planning Tradition"
April 8
Randolph Turner
"Virginia Indians Through 11,000 Years of Prehistory"
June 17
Daryl Cumber Dance
"Long Gone: The Theme of Escape in Black Literature and Folklore"
September 5
Rex Ellis
"Colonial Black History: A Second Look"
February 20
Robert Remini
"Andrew Jackson: Soldier-Hero and Combative President"
April 16
Marie Tyler-McGraw
"Time Traveling in Richmond"
June 18
Terry Alford
"John Wilkes Booth and Lady Love"
September 17
Sara B. Bearss
"The 'Religion of the Revolution': George W. P. Custis and the Legacy of Washington"
October 15
John d'Entremont
"Virginians as Americans: Toward a New History of the Commonwealth"
November 19
James Walker
"Virginia: The African-American Connection"
February 14
Nelson D. Lankford
"One Virginian's World War II: David K. E. Bruce and the OSS"
April 18
Helen Rountree
"Pocahontas: The Legend and the Reality"
June 20
Daniel P. Jordan
"The Classical World of Thomas Jefferson"
September 19
John W. Knapp
"Gun Smoke and Chalk Dust: A View of Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson"
October 17
William Kelso
"The Archaeology of Thomas Jefferson: Monticello and Poplar Forest"
February 15
David W. Gaddy
"The Lincoln Assassination Plot"
April 19
Sandra Gioia Treadway
"Virginia Women in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography"
June 21
James C. Kelly
"Marks of Achievement"
August 16
Ronald Heinemann
"Great Depression in Virginia"
September 27
Edgar A. Toppin
"Emancipation, Black Troops, and the Outcome of the Civil War "
November 15
James I. Robertson, Jr.
"Why the Civil War Lives"
February 16
Virginius C. Hall, Jr.
"Virginia Portraiture in the Grand Manner"
April 27
Joseph Kett
"Coming to Terms with Cultural Literacy"
June 15
John Treadway
"The Road to World War II"
August 17
Hon. Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
"Twentieth-Century Virginia Politics—A Personal View"
October 19
Anne Hobson Freeman
"Inside Hunton & Williams: The Lives of the Founding Fathers"
November 9
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