Thanks for your excellent addition to this thread. I just drove by there on I-78 yesterday (took the alternate route back from Maryland).
Lives of Liberty Lecture Series at Lafayette College
In the fall, the Lives of Liberty lecture series will include distinguished scholars whose work deals with the Marquis’ life or the times in which he lived.
In the spring, the series will feature accomplished individuals whose lives embody the ideals of Lafayette in the world today. Information on the speakers will be posted here as scheduling advances.
David McCullough | Ron Chernow | Simon Schama
Gloria Steinem | Salman Rushdie
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“David McCullough”
Keynote Lecture “Ties that Bind:
America and France,” 8 p.m. Sept. 5, Kamine Gymnasium
David McCullough, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his biographies of Harry S Truman and John Adams, will kick off the Lives of Liberty series with a keynote talk Sept. 5.
The father of a Lafayette graduate and recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree from the College in 1995, McCullough was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, by President George W. Bush in December 2006.
He is a world-renowned writer and historian who has received more than 70 awards and honors for his books and articles.
In addition to Pulitzers for Truman and John Adams, McCullough’s biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback, won the 1982 National Book Award for Biography and The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, won the National Book Award for History in 1978.
He is also the author of The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1983), The Johnstown Flood (1987), Brave Companions: Portraits in History (1992), and most recently 1776 (2005). None of his books has ever been out of print.
He has been honored with the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, National Humanities Medal, St. Louis Literary Award, Carl Sandburg Award, and New York Public Library’s Literary Lion Award.
McCullough received his B.A. in English literature from Yale University and has been given more than 30 honorary degrees. He has also hosted public television’s Smithsonian World and The American Experience and narrated Ken Burns’ documentaries The Civil War and Napoleon and the movie Seabiscuit.
http://www.lafayette.edu/250/lecture.html