Curti Lecture Series

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Year	Name	Topic
1976	Lawrence A. Cremin	"Traditions of American Education"
1976	Christopher Hill	"Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution"
1978	John Higham	"Ethnicity in America: A Comparative Approach"
1978	Carlo M. Cipolla	"Plague, Society and Public Health in the Late Renaissance"
1979	Benjamin I. Schwartz	"Understanding Other Cultures; Perils and Pitfalls"
1981	James Willard Hurst	"A Legal History of Interest Bargaining in the United States"
1982	Gordon A. Craig	"The End of Prussia"
1983	Natalie Z. Davis	"The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France"
1984	Bernard Bailyn	"The People of British North America"
1984	Peter Gay	"Hidden Agendas; On Love and Sex in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels"
1986	Michael Kammen	"The Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture"
1986	Lawrence Stone	"Broken Lives: Marital Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1860"
1987	Peter Brown	"Philosophers and Monks: A Late Antique Option"
1989	Keith Thomas	"Distinguished Marks: Visibility and Social Difference in Early Modern England"
1990	Paul Conkin	"Cane Ridge: America's Pentecost"
1991	Lawrence Levine	"Patterns of American Culture during the Great Depression"
1992	Elizabeth Eisenstein	"Divine Art/Infernal Machine: Western Views of Printing from Gutenberg to McLuhan"
1993	Bernard Lewis	"The Multiple Anniversaries of 1492"
1994	William Cronon	"Many Wests: The Search for a Common American Past"
1995	Simon Schama	"Landscape and Memory"
1996	Linda K. Kerber	"The Obligations of Citizenship"
1997	Nell Irvin Painter	"Making Beauty"
1998	Friedrich Katz	"Nazis and Anti-Nazis in Mexico"
1999	David Al Hollinger	"Cosmopolitan and Solidarity"
2000	John Lukacs	"The Way We Live Now: The Profession of History"
2001	Francis C. Oakley	"Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas"
2002	Lynn Hunt	“The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Human Rights”
2003	Jonathan Spence	“Courting the End: One Man’s Vision of the Ming Dynasty’s Fall”
2004	Richard White	“Misunderstanding, Lies, and Deception: An American History”
2005	Paul Boyer	“Apocalypse Then, Apocalypse Now: Bible- Prophecy Belief in American Religion, Politics, & Popular Culture"
2006	Thomas Holt	“’Work, Culture, Liberty’: Contesting Jim Crow at the Turn of the 20th Century”
2008	Laura Engelstein	“Between Nationalism and Empire: Violence and the Jewish Question in World War I Russia”
2009	Carol Gluck	“Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory
2011	Barbara Weinstein	"The Color of Modernity: Racial and Regional Difference in Postcolonial Brazil"