Since 1995, the ENC Department of History, with the financial support of foundations and alumni, has proudly sponsored a distinguished lecture series. The lectures have assisted us in building a strong academic community and have helped us to nurture promising young scholars. Past lecturers include leading historians, theologians, social critics, and philosophers.  Among these prominent speakers, we have hosted a Pulitzer Prize winner, a Gifford lecturer, and a recipient of the Toynbee Prize.

 
*2006*

Brian Ward (University of Florida Professor of History) "Bigger Than Elvis, More Popular Than Jesus: The Beatles, Race, Religion and the American South"

*2005*

Jon H. Roberts (Boston University Professor of History) "The Inward Turn in American Protestant Thought, 1870-1940" 

David Hackett Fischer (University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University) "Deep Change: Rhythms of American History"

*2004*

Andrew Walls (Emeritus, University of Edinburgh) "Christians as Historians"

Alister McGrath (University of Oxford) "The King James Bible"

Darryl Hart (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) "The Protestant Reformation and the History of the West"

*2003*
Bruce Mazlish (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "The Relationship of History to the Natural and Social Sciences"

Jeremy Black (University of Exeter) "War, Technology, and the Rise of the West, 1450-2003: Reconsidered"

Wilfred McClay (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) "The Persistent Irony of American History"

Joseph Amato (Southwestern State University) "Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History"

*2002*
Richard W. Etulain (University of New Mexico) "Beyond Conflict; Toward Complexity"

*2001*
Harvey C. Mansfield (Harvard University) "What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives"

Andrew Bacevich (Boston University) "America's Grand Strategy"

Alberto R. Coll (U.S. Naval War College) "The U.S. in a Changing International Order"

Andrew Walls (University of Edinburgh) "Two Millennia of Christian Expansion and the Problem of the Third"

*2000*
David Hackett Fischer (Brandeis University) "The Revival of History"

John Lukacs (Chestnut Hill College) "The History of History"

Stanley L. Jaki (Seton Hall University; Gifford lecturer; Templeton Prize winner) "Six Days or One Big Bang?"

Frederick A. N. Hale (University of Stellenbosch) "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

*1999*
Edward Larson (University of Georgia; Pulitzer Prize winner) "The Scopes Trial and the Evolving Concept of Freedom"

Margaret Jacob (UCLA) "The Truth of Newton's Science and the Truth of Science's History"

Wilfred McClay (Tulane University) "Is America an Experiment?"

David Gress (Foreign Policy Research Institute) "From Plato to Nato"

*1998*
Theodore Von Laue (Clark University) "History for the New Millennium"

Radu Florescu (Boston College) "Who is the Real Dracula?"

H. David Stewart (Hillsdale College) "Rebellion, Conspiracy, and Espionage: Alterations of French Cultural Identity in the Reign of Louis XIV"

*1997*
William M. Fowler, Jr. (Northeastern University; director, Massachusetts Historical Society) "Reflections on History"

Margaret Lamberts Bendroth (co-director, Pew Foundation's Women and the 20th-Century Protestantism Project) "Gender, Feminism, and the Task of the Christian Historian"

*1996*
Glenn Tinder (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "Can We Be Good Without God?

Lawrence Yerdon (director, Hancock Shaker Village) "Opportunities in Public History"

Lee Stetson (professor actor) "Look What I Did with a History Degree!"

*1995*
Jeremy Bangs (former chief curator, Plimoth Plantation; director, Leiden American Pilgrim Museum) "Archival Research Opportunities in Europe and America"

Karen J. Freeze (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) "History and Reconciliation"

Russell K. Bishop (Gordon College) "Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Toward a Reconceptualization of the Past"