Booklists for UMW's Great Lives Lecture Series
This William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series is open to the public free of charge and no admission tickets are required.
CRRL librarians have hand-pick titles to accompany each lecture.
All programs begin at 7:30 pm in Dodd Auditorium in George Washington Hall.
January
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, January 21. Lecture by Craig Shirley, author of "Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan & the Campaign that Changed America"
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Thursday, January 23. Lecture by Jeff Benedict, author of the 2018 biography "Tiger Woods"
D-Day Girls
D-Day Girls
Tuesday, January 28. Lecture by Sarah Rose, author of "D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance"
JFK/James Bond
JFK/James Bond
Thursday, January 30. Lectured by Stephen Watts, author of "JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier"
February
Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers
Tuesday, February 4. Lecture by Francis Gary Powers, Jr., his son, and author of "Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and..."
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
Thursday, February 6. Lecture by Peter Ames Carlin, author of "Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall, & Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson."
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Tuesday, February 11. Lecture by Brian Jay Jones, author of "Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination"
John and John Quincy Adams
John and John Quincy Adams
Thursday, February 13. Lectured by the authors of "The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality"
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Tuesday, February 18. Lecture by Kitty Ferguson, author of "Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind"
American Duelists
American Duelists
Thursday, February 20. Lecture by Joanne Freeman, author of "The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America"
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Thursday, February 27. Lecture by David W. Blight, author of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom".
March
Female Internet Inventors
Female Internet Inventors
Tuesday, March 10. Lecture by Claire Evans, author of "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet".
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Thursday, March 12. Lecture by Devin Brown, author of "A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis".
America’s Notorious Pirates
America's Notorious Pirates
Thursday, March 19. Lecture by Eric Jay Dolin, author of "Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates"
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Tuesday, March 24. Lecture by Jonathan Sperber, author of "Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life"
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
Tuesday, March 31. Lecture by Stephen Michael Shearer, author of "Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr"
April
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Tuesday, April 7. Lecture by William Taubman, author of "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era".
Pioneer Female Aviators
Pioneer Female Aviators
Tuesday, April 14. Lecture by Keith O'Brien, author of "Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History"
