Mon, Sept 19, 7:00 p.m. Elie Wiesel, “Why Pray?” Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. Introduction by President Emeritus John Silber. Boston University, GSU Metcalf Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission: free. Open to the public. Info: 617-353-2238.

Tue, Sept 20, 3:30 p.m., Patricia Rife (University of Maryland), “Einstein, Ethics, and the Atomic Bomb.” Part of the Physics Colloquia Series. SCI Auditorium, Boston University, http://physics.bu.edu.

Wed, Sept 21, 6:30 p.m., Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills will discuss his book Henry Adams and the Making of America. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Tickets for events requiring them are available at Harvard Book Store. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

Fri, Sept 23, 3:00 p.m., Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore will discuss her book New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Tickets for events requiring them are available at Harvard Book Store. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

Mon, Sept 26, 10:00 a.m., John Dominic Crossan Lecture. Episcopal Divinity School, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA. Tickets to the lecture are $20 for the first two individuals per parish (one clergy member + guest), and $5 for each additional person.  Advance tickets are required as seating is limited; please contact Bill Louie at 617-682-1571 or wlouie@eds.edu.

Mon, Sept. 26, 7 p.m., Charles C. Mann, author of the NYTimes bestseller, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, will give a talk and have a signing at the Barnes &
Noble, Kenmore Square.

Mon, Sept 26 3:00 p.m., Steven Kaplan, “Cursed Bread: The Social History of Forgotten France, 1945 – 1958.” Steven Kaplan, Professor of History, Cornell University speaks on the complex story that touches on political, cultural and economic history of post WW11 France. STH B-19, Boston University, info: 617-353-9852. Admission: free.

Tue, Sept 27, 7:30 p.m., Mark Lila, “Giving Religion its Due.” Mark Lila, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, is one of the most important intellectual historians of our time. His recent work includes The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2003), and a study of the connections between modern theology and politics, The Stillborn God, to be published later this year. Devlin 101, Boston College. Event URL: http://www.bc.edu/offices/lowellhs/. Contact's Phone: 617-552-3705.

Tue, Sept 27, 6:00 p.m., Richard Wendorf, "Burying Sir Joshua [Reynolds]." Boston Athenæum, 10½, Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. To Reserve: There is no fee for this event. Reservations are required, but will not be accepted before September 13, 2005. Please call the Athenæum’s reservation line, 617/720-7600. 

Wed, 28 Sept, 7:30pm, Colson Lecturer with Cornelius Plantinga. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Wed, Sept 28, 7:00 p.m., Felix Frankurter professor of law, Alan Dershowitz discusses and signs copies of his compelling new book, The Case For Peace. Harvard Coop, Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Wed, Sept 28, Stuart Culy, "Exploring Local History in Federal Records." A lecture and visual presentation by Stuart Culy, Archives Director, National Archives Northeast Region (NARA). Boston Public Library.

Thur, Sept 29, 8:00 p.m., David McCullough, "The Spirit of 1776." First Baptist Church, 111 Park Avenue, Worcester, sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. This lecture is open to the public free of charge. 

Thur, Sept 29, 5:30 p.m., Olivia Santiago Ceto, “Reconstructing Society After Genocide: The Experience of a Mayan Activist in Guatemala.” Olivia Santiago Ceto is the first indigenous woman from the genocide-torn Ixil region of Guatemala to obtain a university degree... She will describe the armed conflict in Guatemala, its effect on her life and community, and what needs to be done to rebuild Mayan Ixil society. Boston College Law School. Contact's Phone: 703-589-5170.

Tue, Oct 4, 12:00, Pamela W. Fox, "North Shore Boston: Country Houses of Essex County, 1865-1930." Boston Athenæum, 10½, Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. To Reserve: There is no fee for this event. Reservations are required, but will not be accepted before September 20, 2005. Please call the Athenæum’s reservation line, 617/720-7600. 

Thur, Oct 6, Robert Pinsky will discuss his new book Life of David. At Harvard Hillel, sponsored by the Harvard Book Store. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Tickets for events requiring them are available at Harvard Book Store. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

Thur, Oct 6, 7:30 p.m., The First American Revolution: A Panel Discussion With John L. Brooke, Robert A. Gross, and Ray Raphael. American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester.

Fri, Oct 7, 7:00 p.m., Barbara Ehrenreich will discuss her new book Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge, sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore. Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

Sun, Oct 9, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., “The Future of Social Security.” New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman and others will decipher the issues facing this country’s largest public program. Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant will moderate. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Mon, Oct 10, distinguished critic Harold Bloom will discuss his book Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge, sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Tickets for events requiring them are available at Harvard Book Store. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

Tue, Oct 11, 7:00 p.m., Dwayne Carpenter (Professor of Hispanic Studies, Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures), “Funny, They Don't Look Jewish: Confusing Converts in Medieval Spain.” Devlin Hall, Room 101, Boston College.

Wed, Oct 12 - Dec 2, Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation is a highly-acclaimed national traveling exhibition focusing on Lincoln's quest to restore a Union divided by Civil War.  As one of only 40 locations in the country, and its only site in Massachusetts, the exhibit opens at the Tisch Library at Tufts University on October 12, 2005.

Thur, Oct 13, 6:00 p.m., Lewis Dabney, "Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature." Boston Athenæum, 10½, Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. To Reserve: There is a $10.00 fee for this event. Reservations are required, but will not be accepted before September 28, 2005. Please call the Athenæum’s reservation line, 617/720-7600. 

Fri, Oct 14, 3:00 p.m., Joshua Wolf Shenk will discuss his new book Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue , Cambridge. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Tickets for events requiring them are available at Harvard Book Store. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

Fri, Oct 14, 6:30 p.m., famed essayist and novelist Joan Didion will discuss her new memoir The Year of Magical Thinking with guest host Christopher Lydon. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge, sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore.

Sun, Oct 16, 2:00 p.m., Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, “Women in the Gaelic Traditions,” Lecture and Performance. Gasson Hall, Room 100, Boston College.

Thur, Oct 20, 7:30 p.m., Leon F. Litwack, "Troubled in Mind: The Education of a Historian." American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA This lecture is open to the public free of charge. 

Thur, Oct 20, 7:00 p.m., Helen R. Deese - editor of Daughter of Boston. Ms. Deese is the Caroline Healy Dall editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society - and Daughter of Boston chronicles the life of early feminist and writer - Caroline Healy Dall. Harvard Coop, Harvard Square.

Thur, Oct 20, 6:00 p.m., Hazel Rowley, "Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre." Boston Athenæum, 10½, Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. To Reserve: There is a $10.00 fee for this event. Reservations are required, but will not be accepted before October 6, 2005. Please call the Athenæum’s reservation line, 617/720-7600. 

Sun, Oct 23, First Session: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., "JFK, MLK and RFK: 1960-1968." Theodore Sorensen, Special Counsel to President Kennedy; Harris Wofford, President Kennedy’s chairman for the Subcabinet Group on Civil Rights; and Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pillar of Fire, will look at the years 1960 to 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr. engaged the President and the Attorney General in the battle to extend civil rights to all.  Second Session: 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. Marian Wright Edelman, founder and chairman of the Children’s Defense Fund and an organizer of Dr. King’s Poor People’s March; Peter Edelman, aide to Robert F. Kennedy; and Elaine Jones, former President of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will look at the years 1963 to 1968 and the continuing relationship between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy concerning civil rights and their growing opposition to the Vietnam War. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Wed, Oct 26**, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., Walter Cronkite. Caroline Kennedy will introduce Walter Cronkite, former CBS anchorman, who will discuss his long career in broadcast journalism, his observations on American politics over the decades, and his recollections of President Kennedy. Charles Osgood, CBS News Sunday Morning anchor, will moderate. The JFK Library and Museum. **This is a ticketed event. Tickets will be selected by lottery. To participate in the lottery, call 617-514-1642 by Monday, October 10. If your name is selected, you will be notified by Friday, October 14.

Thur, Oct 27, 7 p.m.,  Pauline Maier on the ratification of the US Constitution, “Take This or Nothing.” Drew McCoy will offer an informal comment.  Bentley College, Waltham, MA

Mon, Oct 31, 7:00 p.m., Elie Wiesel, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. Introduction by Steven Katz, Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies. This is also the keynote address for the conference Reconsidering The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: 100 Years After the Forgery. Doors open at 6 p.m. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission: free. GSU Metcalf Hall, Boston University. Open to the public. Info: 617-353-2238. 

Tues, Nov 1, 7:00 p.m., Best-selling author William Wright will discuss the savage 1920 purge of campus homsexuals which was said to have happened on the Harvard campus. He will also be signing copies of his riveting new book, Harvard's Secret Court. Harvard Coop, 3rd Floor, Harvard Square.

Thur, Nov 3, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Richard Holbrooke, “The United Nations in the 21st Century.” Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke will analyze the problems with the United Nations and argue why this organization should remain vital in world crises. Nancy Soderberg, who served on President Clinton’s National Security Council, will moderate. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Mon, Nov 7, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., John Seigenthaler, “What’s Happened to the News Media?” John Seigenthaler, award-winning journalist and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Ellen Hume, director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston; and Garret Graf, the first blogger admitted to a White House press briefing, will discuss the continuing controversies in print and broadcast journalism and how the internet is changing the face of the news media. Callie Crossley of WGBH’s Beat the Press, will moderate. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Tue, Nov 8, 7:00 p.m., Karen Armstrong, "Religion and Terror." The Harvard Memorial Church, Pusey Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, phone: 617-495-5508. This event is free and open to the public.

Tue, Nov 8, 6:00 pm, A.N. Wilson "After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World." Boston Athenæum, 10½, Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. To Reserve: There is a $10.00 fee for this event. Reservations are required, but will not be accepted before October 25, 2005. Please call the Athenæum’s reservation line, 617/720-7600. 

Thur, Nov. 10,  Jon H. Roberts of Boston University,“The Inward Turn in American Protestant Thought, 1870-1940.” Eastern Nazarene College, 3pm, Munro Parlor.

Thur, Nov 10, 6:00 p.m., Douglas L. Wilson on Thomas Jefferson's Library, "The Man Who Couldn't Live Without Books." Boston Athenæum, 10½, Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. To Reserve: There is a no fee for this event. Reservations are required, but will not be accepted before October 27. 2005. Please call the Athenæum’s reservation line, 617/720-7600. 

Tue, Nov 15, 6:00 p.m., Andrew Walls, "Whither World Christianity?" Stoddard Hall, Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Rd., Newton Centre, MA. 

Tue, Wed, 15-16 November, 9:30 a.m, Swetland Lectureship in Pastoral Ministry with Jim Wallis. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. 

Sun, Nov 20, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., “The Presidency of LBJ.” Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of President Johnson, will deliver the keynote address in the Kennedy Library’s ongoing examination of 20th century presidents. He will join JackValenti, who served as Special Assistant to President Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer Anthony Lewis and Boston University historian Bruce Schulman to discuss LBJ’s legacy. Harvard University historian Lizabeth Cohen will moderate. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Mon, Nov 21, 7:00 p.m., Elie Wiesel, “The Time of the Uprooted.” Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. Introduction by Rabbi Joseph Polak, Hillel Foundation. Doors open at 6 p.m. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. GSU Metcalf Hall, Boston University. Admission: free. Open to the public. Info: 617-353-2238.

Mon, Nov 28, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., “The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner.” On the publication of Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner, the award-winning playwright, author, and good friend of Hemingway will share stories about the man. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway’s works. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan will moderate. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Thur, Dec 1, 7:30 p.m., Adam Hochschild, “Twelve Men in a Printing Shop, May 22, 1787: A Great Human Rights Movement is Born.” Adam Hochschild has written six books, including Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (2005), about the beginnings of the first civil rights movement in 18th-century England, and King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1999), about the horrors of treatment of the natives of the Congo by Belgium’s ruthless king and the struggle of humanistic reformers to bring about change in that African country. Devlin 101, Boston College. Event URL: http://www.bc.edu/offices/lowellhs/. Contact's Phone: 617-552-3705.

Dec. 6, David Hackett Fischer of Brandeis University, “Deep Change: Rhythms of American History.” Eastern Nazarene College, 7:30pm, Student Center Auditorium.

Fri, Dec 9, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., “Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.” Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will discuss the challenges for international justice today. Following the forum will be a film to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials and a conversation with survivors of genocide. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643.

Sun, Dec 18, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., Doris Kearns Goodwin, “The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.” Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin will explain how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation’s history. The JFK Library and Museum.  Free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed: 617.514.1643. 

Jan 25, 2006 Robert J. Allison, "Short History of Boston: An Illustrated History." Boston Public Library. 

Apr 26, 2006, Clint Richmond, "Political Places of Boston: An Illustrated History." Boston Public Library. 

Past ENC History Department Lectures