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ENC
HISTORY DEPARTMENT DISTINGUISHED
LECTURE
SERIES, FALL 2005 - SPRING 2006
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April
6, 2006: "Bigger Than Elvis, More Popular Than Jesus:
The Beatles, Race, Religion and the American South"
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On April 6th, University of Florida professor
of history Brian Ward delivered a captivating  lecture
entitled “Bigger Than Elvis,
More Popular Than Jesus: The Beatles, Race, Religion and the American South”
to a packed audience of ENC faculty, alumni, and students. The American
Historical Review recently described Ward as “one of the leading civil
rights historians of his generation.” Ward’s lecture seamlessly fused
narrative, video clips, and sound files to present a powerful story of
race, rock, and religion in the mid-century American South. Ward
focused in on John Lennon’s 1966 comment that the Beatles were bigger than
Jesus, a casual remark that threw Dixie into an uproar. Moreover,
Ward showed how much this incident revealed about the fundamental differences
that separated the American South from England. . . read
more
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lecture
Dec.
6, 2005: “Deep Change: Rhythms of American History”
David
Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University
7:30pm, Student
Center Auditorium
David
Hackett Fischer
is renowned  as
one of America's most gifted and creative historians. He is University
Professor and Warren Professor of History Brandeis University and author
of several widely acclaimed books, including Historians' Fallacies
(Harper, 1970), Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
(Oxford, 1989), Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford, 1994), The Great
Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (Oxford, 1996), and
Liberty
and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (Oxford,
2005). His Washington's Crossing (Oxford, 2004) won the
2005
Pulitzer Prize for History. Fischer will be speaking at ENC on
his latest work, Liberty
and Freedom (Oxford, 2004), a sweeping narrative of American history,
chronicling the ever-changing meanings of “liberty” and “freedom.”
In addition, professor Donald Yerxa is teaching an upper
division course in Fall 2005 that will survey the work of Fischer.
Download
poster (pdf, 973kb)
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Nov.
10, 2005: “The Inward Turn in American Protestant Thought, 1870-1940”
Jon
H. Roberts, Boston University
3pm, Munro
Parlor
 Jon
H. Roberts is professor of history at Boston University. He is author of
the Brewer Prize-winning book Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant
Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900 (Wisconsin, 1998) and
coauthor of The Sacred and the Secular University (Princeton, 2000).
He is currently working on several projects dealing with the history of
the relationship between science and religion. He is also writing
a history of psychology and Protestant thought in the United States from
1870 to 1940.
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