Past Fortenbaugh Speakers

Smith, Richard Norton, "Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Politics," 46th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2007

Horton, James and Lois, "Abraham Lincoln in African American History and Memory," 45th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2006

Gallagher, Gary W., "'The Progress of Our Arms': Whither Civil War Military History?" 
44th Fortnbaugh Lecture, 2005

Holzer, Harold, "Standing Tall: The Heroic Image of Ambraham Lincoln," 
43rd Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2004

Holt, Michael F. , "A Time of Uncertainty: The Civil War and America's Two-Party System," 42nd Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2003

Neely, Mark E. Jr., "Retaliation: The Problem of Atrocity In the American Civil War,"
41st Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2002

Berlin, Ira, "American Slavery in History and Memory,"
40th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2001

Marty, Martin E., "The War-Time Lincoln and the Ironic Tradition in America," 
39th   Fortenbaugh Lecture, 2000

Baker, Jean, "The Lincoln Marriage: Beyond the Battle of Quotations," 
38th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1999

Keegan, John, "The Military Geography of the American Civil War," 
36th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1997

Faust, Drew Gilpin, "A Riddle of Death: Mortality and Meaning in the American Civil War,"   34th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1995

Fogel, Robert W., "The Quest for the Moral Problem of Slavery: An Historiographic Odyssey,"  33rd Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1994*

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, "To Be Worthy of God's Favor: Southern Women's Defense and Critique of Slavery,"  32nd Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1993

Foner, Eric, "The Tocsin of Freedom: The Black Leadership of Radical Reconstruction," 
31st Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1992

Stampp, Kenneth M., "The United States and National Self-Determination: Two Traditions,"  30th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1991

Degler, Carl N., "One Among Many: The Civil War in Comparative Perspective," 
29th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1990

Bruce, Robert V., "The Shadow of a Coming War," 
28th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1989*

Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur, "War and the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln and
Franklin D. Roosevelt,"  27th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1988

Cunliffe, Marcus, "The Doubled Images of Lincoln & Washington," 
26th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1987*

Handlin, Oscar, "The Road to Gettysburg,"  25th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1986

Genovese, Eugene, "Slavery Ordained of God: The Southern Slaveholders' View of Biblical History and Modern Politics," 
24th Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1985*

McPherson, James M., "Lincoln and the Strategy of Unconditional Surrender," 23rd Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1984*

Davis, David Brion, "The Emancipation Moment,"
22nd Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1983*

Barzun, Jacques, "Lincoln's Philosophic Vision,"
21st Fortenbaugh Lecture, 1982*

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