Fall 2010 Lectures and Seminars

All seminars are at 12pm at the Lehman Center. Lunch is served. Events are free and open to the public but RSVPs are required: email lehmancenter@columbia.edu

"The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century" 
Wed. Oct. 6    Alan Brinkley, Columbia University

"Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory"
Wed. Oct. 13   Jon Zimmerman, New York University

"The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America"
Tues. Oct. 19   Mae Ngai, Columbia University

"Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications"
Tues. Oct. 26  Richard John, Columbia School of Journalism

"The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected"
Wed. Nov. 3    Jonathan Cole, Columbia University

"The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History"
Mon. Nov. 9     Sam Moyn, Columbia University

"Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown"
Tues. Nov. 16   Kimberly Johnson, Barnard College

"The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"
Tues. Nov. 30   Eric Foner, Columbia University

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