A Decade of Lectures

Great Lives 2013

Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium and are free to the public. Find more information and a lecture video archive at umw.edu/greatlives.

Jan. 24 Julius Caesar, by Philip Freeman: Julius Caesar	Jan. 29 Cleopatra, by Duane W. Roller: Cleopatra: A Biography	Feb. 7 Brigham Young, by John Turner: Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
Feb. 12 Lawrence of Arabia, by Nabil Al-Tikriti	Feb. 14 Houdini, by John Kasson: Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man	Feb. 21 Arthur Ashe, by Arnold Rampersad: co-author with Ashe, Days of Grace: A Memoir
Feb. 26 Marilyn Monroe, by Carl Rollyson: Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress	Feb. 28 Marian Anderson, by Raymond Arsenault: The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America	March 12 Walter Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley: Cronkite
March 19 Winston Churchill, by Jeremy Black: A History of the British Isles	March 26 The Pacific Admirals of World War II, by Walter R. Borneman: The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King – The Five- Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea	April 2 Queen Elizabeth II, by Sally Bedell Smith: Elizabeth the Queen
April 9 Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, by Susan Cheever: My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson – His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous	April 11 Ernest Hemingway, by Paul Hendrickson: Hemingway’s Boat	April 16 Rasputin, by Joseph Fuhrmann: Rasputin: The Untold Story
April 18 Abraham Lincoln, by Michael Burlingame: Abraham Lincoln: A Life	April 23 Michelangelo, by William Wallace: Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times	April 25 Madness and Greatness, by Nassir Ghaemi: A First-Rate Madness

Filed Under: On Campus Tagged With: Biography, Carmen Culpeper Chappell, Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, Great Lives