Great Lives at UMW

The 2014 Chappell Great Lives Series continues with lectures covering a wide range of figures, from Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to Spartacus. The final program on April 22 features Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who will discuss her parents, based on her family memoir, Under a Wing. March 27: Titans of the Gilded Age: Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan by historian and biographer H.W. Brands of University of Texas, Austin April 1: Henry VIII by British historian Jeremy Black of University of Exeter April 8: Shakespeare by Lois Potter: The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography April 10: Spartacus by Barry Strauss of Cornell University: The Spartacus War April 15: Machiavelli by Miles Unger: Machiavelli: A Biography April 17 Simon Bolivar by Marie Arana: Bolivar: American Liberator April 22 Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of Charles and Anne Lindbergh: Under a Wing: A Memoir All lectures are … [Read more...]