Booklists for UMW's Great Lives Lecture Series
In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, UMW has canceled all Great Lives programs have been cancelled, through April 2 effective immediately.
Updates will be provided regarding the two remaining lectures: April 7th on Khrushchev and April 14th on Pioneer Female Aviators.
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
UMW Great Lives: Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, January 21. Lecture by Craig Shirley, author of "Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan & the Campaign that Changed America"
Tiger Woods
UMW Great Lives: Tiger Woods
Thursday, January 23. Lecture by Jeff Benedict, author of the 2018 biography "Tiger Woods"
D-Day Girls
UMW Great Lives: D-Day Girls
Tuesday, January 28. Lecture by Sarah Rose, author of "D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance"
JFK/James Bond
UMW Great Lives: 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
UMW's Great Lives: 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
Folktales of the American Indians
From the Eastern Woodlands to the Great Plains, these Indian folktales have unique stories from different regions all around the U.S.
Dr. Seuss
UMW's Great Lives: 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
UMW Great Lives: 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
UMW Great Lives: Stephen Hawking
Tuesday, February 18. Lecture by Kitty Ferguson, author of "Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind".
American Duelists
UMW Great Lives: American Duelists
Thursday, February 20. Lecture by Joanne Freeman, author of "The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America"
Frederick Douglass
UMW Great Lives: Frederick Douglass
Thursday, February 27. Lecture by David W. Blight, author of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom".
March
Female Internet Inventors
Folktales of the American Indians
From the Eastern Woodlands to the Great Plains, these Indian folktales have unique stories from different regions all around the U.S.
C.S. Lewis
UMW Great Lives: 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
UMW Great Lives: 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
UMW Great Lives: Karl Marx
Tuesday, March 24. Lecture by Jonathan Sperber, author of "Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life"
Hedy Lamarr
UMW Great Lives: Hedy Lamarr
Tuesday, March 31. Lecture by Stephen Michael Shearer, author of "Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr"
April
Nikita Khrushchev
UMW Great Lives: Nikita Khrushchev
Tuesday, April 7. Lecture by William Taubman, author of "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era".
Pioneer Female Aviators
UMW Great Lives: 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"
