 Pulitzer Prize-Winner David Hackett Fischer
Speaks at ENC, December 4
Distinguished History Lecturer David Hackett Fischer on "Champlain's
Dream" December 4th at 7pm in Shrader Lecture Hall. Professor Fischer
is one of the leading historians of early America. He is author of
several important books, including Albion's Seed, Paul Revere's Ride,
and Washington's Crossing (for which he received the Pulitzer Prize).
His lecture will be drawn from his new book: Champlain's Dream (Simon
& Schuster).
The lecture is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the
ENC History Department and the Historical Society.
Boston
University Colonial Historian Brendan McConville Speaks to History
Class and Lectures on Constitutional Conventions, November 11
Brendan McConville will lecture to ENC history majors and the public
on "States of Minds: Constitutional Change and the Struggles to
Create New States in the Era of the American Revolution." McConville
also spoke with students of Professor Yerxa's colonial history class
about his book, The King's Three
Faces. McConville's research focuses on the intersection
of politics and social developments in Early America. He is the author
of These Daring Disturbers of the
Public Peace (Cornell, 1999, paperback University of
Pennsylvania, 2003), The King's
Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
(OIEAHC-UNC Press, 2006), and The
American Revolution (forthcoming). He taught at SUNY-Binghamton
from 1992 to 2004 and was chair of the department there in 2003-04.
Prominent
Historian Wilfred M. McClay to Give Lecture at ENC, Septermber 19
Prominent historian Wilfred M. McClay will
give a lecture at ENC on September 19 on the question of progress in
history. He is widely considered to be one of the best historical
essayists in America, and he is a remarkably gifted speaker. His
lecture is titled "Is There Moral Progress in History? Three Christian
Views." It will be held Munro Poetry Room, Friday, Sept. 19 3:30 pm. It
is co-sponsored by the History Department and The  Historical
Society.
Wilfred M. McClay has been SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in
Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is
also Professor of History, since 1999. He has also taught at Georgetown
University, Tulane University, Johns Hopkins University, and the
University of Dallas, and is currently a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Senior
Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and a
member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program of
Princeton University. He was appointed in 2002 to the National Council
on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
His book The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (North
Carolina, 1994) won the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of
American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history
published in the years 1993 and 1994. Among his other books are The
Student’s Guide to U.S. History (ISI Books, 2001), and Religion Returns
to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America (Woodrow Wilson
Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). He is currently at work
on a biographical study of the American sociologist David Riesman under
contract to Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and is editing two collection
of essays, one called Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person
in the American Past, which features sixteen essays by American
historians on changing American understandings of self and person, and
a collection of his own essays titled Pieces of a Dream: Historical and
Critical Essays.
He held the Royden B. Davis Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at
Georgetown University for the academic year 1998-99. Among his other
awards, McClay was selected for inclusion on the 1997-98 Templeton
Honor Rolls, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation for distinguished
teaching and scholarship in American higher education. In addition, he
has been the recipient of fellowship awards from the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the National Academy of Education, the Howard Foundation,
the Earhart Foundation, and the Danforth Foundation. He is coeditor of
Rowman and Littlefield’s book series entitled American Intellectual
Culture, serves on the editorial boards of First Things, The Wilson
Quarterly, The Public Interest, Society, Touchstone, Historically
Speaking, and University Bookman, and is a member of the Board of
Governors of The Historical Society. He was educated at St. John’s
College (Annapolis) and the Johns Hopkins University, where he received
a Ph.D. in history in 1987.
Charles
Marsh (Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia), Speaks
on "Building Beloved Community: The Christian Call to Humanity," Thurs, September 25. Sponsored by the DeFreitas Foundation.
Charles Marsh is Professor of Religious and Theological Studies and
Director of the Project on Lived Theology. He is the author of a
variety of books, including Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise
of His Theology (Oxford, 1994); God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and
Civil Rights (Princeton, 1997; 2008), which won the 1998 Grawemeyer
Award in Religion;The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation
at the Dawn of a New South (Basic, 2001); The Beloved Community: How
Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
(Basic, 2005); and Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from
Political Captivity (Oxford, June 2007). Marsh is currently in
the
early stages of writing a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
This
will be first major trade biography in several decades of the German
theologian and dissident. The book will be published by
Knopf. He is
also co- authoring a book with John M. Perkins titled Building Beloved
Communities: The Witness of Peace and the Practices of Mercy in
Post-Civil Rights America, to be published in Fall 2008 by Intervarsity
Press. Marsh has written articles for New York Times, the Boston
Globe, Books and Culture, Christianity Today, and dozens of other
newspapers and opinion journals.
Professor Marsh will also be giving a
talk on "Civil Rights and
Religion" as part of the sandwich seminars at 12:30 in the ENC
cafeteria.
Past
ENC History Dept. Lectures
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