Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum
 About the Forum Since 1998, the Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum has provided a broad perspective on United States history by presenting the nation's top scholars and writers. Most featured lecturers have won a Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award for their writing, and many are among the most revered academicians in the nation. Buy Tickets Now Purchase Tickets Online click here
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2010 Lecture Series All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. Ron White February 23rd, 2010 Ronald C. White, Jr. is the bestselling author of A. Lincoln: A Biography, Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words. He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. White is a graduate of UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, and earned his Ph.D. in Religion and History from Princeton University. He has taught at UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, Whitworth University, Colorado College, and San Francisco Theological Seminary.
March 16th, 2010
Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts. Limerick has received a number of awards and honors recognizing the impact of her scholarship and her commitment to teaching, including the MacArthur Fellowship (1995 to 2000) and the Hazel Barnes Prize, the University of Colorado's highest award for teaching and research (2001).
April 13th, 2010
Dr. Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Five of Brinkley’s books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year: Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years (1992); Driven Patriot: The Life and Times ofJames Forrestal, with Townsend Hoopes (1992); The Unfinished Presidency: JimmyCarter’s Journey Beyond the White House (1998); Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, HisCompany, and a Century of Progress (2003) and The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina,New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2006). Brinkley is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Book Review and American Heritage, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The NewYorker and The Atlantic Monthly.
May 18th, 2010
James M. McPherson is the author of 15 books and the editor of another ten, mostly on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction and on Abraham Lincoln. His books have won several prizes, most notably the Pulitzer Prize (1989) for Battle Cry of Freedom; The Civil War Era. He was born in North Dakota and grew up in Minnesota, where he graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958. He received his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1963. From 1962 to 2004 he taught at Princeton University, where he is currently the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus. He is a member of several professional associations, and has served as president of the American Historical Association and the Society of American Historians.
Venue InformationAll lectures will be taking place at the First Congregational Church
First Congregation Church 1126 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR 97205 (503) 228-7219
Past Speakers 2009 Sesquicentennial Series
Doris Kearns Goodwin Abraham Lincoln February 18, 2009
Robert K. Sutton
Charles Wilkinson
2007-2008 Series |
Patty Limerick
Douglas Brinkley
James McPherson
| 1998 "PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP" James McPherson David McCullough Garry Wills | 1999 "THE CHANGING PRESIDENCY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" Edmund Morris Doris Kearns Goodwin Michael Beschloss |
| 2000 "CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP" Roger G. Kennedy David M. Kennedy Richard Norton Smith | 2001 "PRESIDENTIAL INFLUENCE" David McCullough Joan Hoff Douglas G. Brinkley |
| 2002-03 "THE MAKING OF A NATION" Elizabeth Drew James F. Simon Jack Rakove Ronald C. White, Jr. | 2003-04 "THE PRESIDENCY IN A TIME OF CRISIS" Fred I. Greenstein Timothy Walch Robert Dallek Rex Ziak |
| 2004-05 "TURNING POINTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY" Lou Cannon David Hackett Fischer Robert Remini Mason Drukman | 2005-06 "EXPANSION AND DISCOVERY" H.W. Brands Josiah S. Bunting III James Ronda Dava Sobel |
| 2006-07 Tom Wicker Ruth Barnes Moynihan Senator Gary Hart John Seigenthaler, Sr. |
