Get on the line with Alexander Graham Bell and walk the line with Johnny Cash through the 2016 Chappell Lecture Series, Great Lives. Those are among the 18 interesting lectures included in next year’s lineup of this perennially popular series. Admission is free for these lectures, which begin at 7:30 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium.
Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will speak Jan. 28, 2016, at UMW.
Jan. 14: Jack London, by James L. Haley, author of Wolf: The Lives of Jack London
Jan. 21: Georgia O’Keeffe, by Roxana Robinson, author of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
Jan. 28: Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Feb. 2: Alexander Graham Bell, by Charlotte Gray, author of Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
Feb. 4: Johnny Cash, by Mark Stielper, historian, essayist, and Cash confidant
Feb. 9: Aviation Icons, by Winston Groom, author of The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Feb. 11: Matthew Fontaine Maury, by John Grady, author of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873
Feb. 18: Jesse Owens, by Jeremy Schapp, author of Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics
Feb. 25: Ethel Payne, by James McGrath Morris, author of Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
March 8: Bob Hope, by Richard Zoglin, author of Hope: Entertainer of the Century
March 10: William Tecumseh Sherman, by Robert L. O’Connell, author of Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
March 15: Charles Darwin, by Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging, Vol. I and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
March 17: Secretariat, by William Nack, author of Secretariat
March 22: Civil War Female Spies, by Karen Abbott, author of Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
March 24: TR and FDR: Environmentalist Presidents, by Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America andRightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
March 29: Oliver Cromwell, by Jeremy Black, author of Oliver Cromwell: God’s Warrior and the English Revolution
April 12: Jefferson Davis, by James M. McPherson, author of Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
April 14: Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World