The University of Mary Washington (UMW) will present its 14th annual Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series beginning Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017.
Formerly known as the Chappell Lecture Series, it has been re-named the Crawley Lecture Series, in honor of its founder and continuing director, UMW History Professor Emeritus William Crawley.
The four-month series examines the lives of historical figures told through lectures by nationally prominent biographers and authors. The talks will be held at 7:30 p.m. on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays in UMW’s George Washington Hall, Dodd Auditorium, 1301 College Ave. in Fredericksburg. The lectures are open to the public free of charge. Each lecture concludes with an audience question and answer session with the speaker, and a book-signing.
The dates, historical figures, and speakers are:
Jan. 24 Woodrow Wilson, by David O. Stewart
Jan. 31 Frank Sinatra, by James Kaplan
Feb. 2 Hamilton and Burr, by John Sedgwick
Feb. 7 Nat Turner, by Kenneth S. Greenberg
Feb. 9 John Wayne, by Scott Eyman
Feb. 14 Ty Cobb, by Charles Leerhsen
Feb. 16 Douglas MacArthur, by Walter R. Borneman
Feb. 21 Harriet Tubman, by Catherine Clinton
Feb. 23 George Custer, by T. J. Stiles
Mar. 2 George Lucas, by Brian Jay Jones
Mar. 14 Pauli Murray and Eleanor Roosevelt, by Patricia Bell-Scott
Mar. 16 Queen Liliuokalani, by James L. Haley
Mar. 21 Mark Twain, by Ron Powers
Mar. 23 Nicholas and Alexandra, by Greg King
Mar. 28 The Witches of Salem, by Stacy Schiff
Mar. 30 Andrew Jackson, by H. W. Brands
Apr. 4 Nero and Caligula, by Barry S. Strauss
Apr. 11 Agatha Christie, by Jeremy Black
Apr. 13 The Jeffersons and Hemingses, by Annette Gordon-Reed
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