Wassong Lecture Archive

2018
Cheryl Greenberg, Paul E. Raether Distinguised Professor of History, Trinity College, A History of Black- Jewish Relations- A Usable Past for the Age of Trump ( April 23, 2018)

2017
Paul Robinson, Law Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Trigger Crimes and Social Progress:  The Tragedy-Outrage-Reform Dynamic in America (April 25, 2017)

2016
Leslie Desmangles, Professor of Religious Studies, Trinity College, The People of the Lonely Star:  The Jewish Diaspora in the Caribbean, (April 25, 2016)

2015
Josiah Ober, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (April 27, 2015)

2014
Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Nietzsche’s Love for Socrates (April 28, 2014)

2013
Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, City University of New York, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth Century History and a History of the Present (04/22/2013)

2012
Joan D. Hedrick, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, Trinity College, Spirited Women: The Visions of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ellen White, Prophet of Seventh-day Adventism (April 23, 2012)

2011
Amitava Kumar, professor of English, Vassar College, Make Your Own Academic Sentence (03/08/2011)

2010
Frank G. Kirkpatrick, Trinity College, Churches in Crisis: How Sex, the Bible, and Authority Are Dividing the Faithful (03/15/2010)

2009
Michael Burlingame, Connecticut College (emeritus), The Life of Abraham Lincoln: New Findings, Fresh Perspectives (03/23/2009)

2007
Louis Masur, Trinity College, Race and Boston: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America (10/29/2007)

2006
Warren Goldstein, historian, University of Hartford, William Sloan Coffin and the Glory, Decline, and Revival of Liberal Protestantism in American (11/06/2006)

2005
Kathleen Curran, architectural historian, Trinity College, Atmosphere and Art: The American Museum and the Period Display (11/07/2005)

2004
Martha Crenshaw, political scientist, Wesleyan University, Why Us?  The United States and Terrorism (10/21/2004)

2003
Borden W. Painter, historian (and president), Trinity College, The Fascist Transformation of the Eternal City (10/28/2003)

Daniel Goldhagen, political scientist, Harvard University, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust (03/13/2003)

2001
Alden Gordon, art historian, Trinity College, From Public to Intimate in Eighteenth-Century French Portraiture: The Image of Madame de Pompadour, Mistress to Louis XV” (10/30/2001)

2000
Paul Goldberger, author and architecture critic for The New Yorker, Is There Still a Reason for Cities?  10/30/2000)

1999
Michael Fitzgerald, art historian, Trinity College, Picasso’s Paintings of the Artist’s Studio: An Exhibition for Hartford and a Central Theme in Modern Art (10/25/1999)

1998
Samuel D. Kassow, historian, Trinity College, Polish-Jewish Relations During World War II  (10/28/1998)

1997
Stephen B. Oates, historian and biographer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, The Man at the White House Window: Abraham Lincoln and the Central Idea of the Civil War (10/29/1997)