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Since 1998, the Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum has provided a broad perspective on United States history by presenting the nation's top scholars and writers. Most featured lecturers have won a Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award for their writing, and many are among the most revered academicians in the nation.
 
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Sponsors

The Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum is made possible by generous support from our sponsors:

 

Presenting:

The Clark Foundation

 

Supporting: 

Tonkon Torp LLP

 

Rocky & Julie Dixon

 

Media Partner: 

Oregon Public Broadcasting


Lodging Partner: 

 Heathman Hotel

 
2010 Lecture Series

All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m.


Ron White  Ron White

  February 23rd, 2010
  Abraham Lincoln

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Ronald C. White, Jr. is the bestselling author of A. Lincoln: A Biography, Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words.  He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.  White is a graduate of UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, and earned his Ph.D. in Religion and History from Princeton University.  He has taught at UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, Whitworth University, Colorado

College, and San Francisco Theological Seminary.


Patty Limerick  Patty Limerick

  March 16th, 2010
  Western American History

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Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History.  Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts.  Limerick has received a number of awards and honors recognizing the impact of her scholarship and her commitment to teaching, including the MacArthur Fellowship (1995 to 2000) and the Hazel Barnes Prize, the University of Colorado's highest award for teaching and research (2001).

 

Doug Brinkley  Douglas Brinkley

  April 13th, 2010
  Theodore Roosevelt


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Dr. Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.  Five of Brinkley’s books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year: Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years (1992); Driven Patriot: The Life and Times ofJames Forrestal, with Townsend Hoopes (1992); The Unfinished Presidency: JimmyCarter’s Journey Beyond the White House (1998); Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, HisCompany, and a Century of Progress (2003) and The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina,New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2006).  Brinkley is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, The

Los Angeles Times Book Review and American Heritage, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The NewYorker and The Atlantic Monthly.


James McPherson  James McPherson

  May 18th, 2010
  Civil War Era
 


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James M. McPherson is the author of 15 books and the editor of another ten, mostly on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction and on Abraham Lincoln.  His books have won several prizes, most notably the Pulitzer Prize (1989) for Battle Cry of Freedom; The Civil War Era.  He was born in North Dakota and grew up in Minnesota, where he graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958.  He received his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1963.  From 1962 to 2004 he taught at Princeton University, where he is currently the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus.  He is a member of several professional associations, and has served as president of the American Historical Association and the Society of American Historians. 

 

 

Venue Information


All lectures will be taking place at the First Congregational Church

 

First Congregation Church

1126 SW Park Avenue

Portland, OR 97205

(503) 228-7219

www.uccportland.org

 

 
Past Speakers

2009 Sesquicentennial Series

 

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Abraham Lincoln

February 18, 2009

 

Robert K. Sutton  rss-podcast
The Civil War in Oregon
March 24, 2009

 

Charles Wilkinson  rss-podcast
Siletz Tribal History
April 21, 2009


David McCullough  rss-podcast
George Washington
May 12, 2009

 

2007-2008 Series

 

Richard Norton Smith  rss-podcast

Gerald Ford
September 19, 2007

Kasey S. Pipes   rss-podcast
Author, Ike’s Last Battle - ( Eisenhower & desegregation)
October 17, 2007

Fred Leeson   rss-podcast
Author, Rose City Justice
November 7, 2007

Special Addition!
Dr. James H. Billington   rss-podcast
The Librarian of Congress
February 13, 2008

A.J. Langguth
Author, Union 1812
March 12, 2008

 

1998
"PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP"
James McPherson
David McCullough
Garry Wills
1999
"THE CHANGING PRESIDENCY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY"
Edmund Morris
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Michael Beschloss
2000
"CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP"
Roger G. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy
Richard Norton Smith
2001
"PRESIDENTIAL INFLUENCE"
David McCullough
Joan Hoff
Douglas G. Brinkley
2002-03
"THE MAKING OF A NATION"
Elizabeth Drew
James F. Simon
Jack Rakove
Ronald C. White, Jr.
2003-04
"THE PRESIDENCY IN A TIME OF CRISIS"
Fred I. Greenstein
Timothy Walch
Robert Dallek
Rex Ziak
2004-05
"TURNING POINTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY"
Lou Cannon
David Hackett Fischer
Robert Remini
Mason Drukman
2005-06
"EXPANSION AND DISCOVERY"
H.W. Brands
Josiah S. Bunting III
James Ronda
Dava Sobel
2006-07
Tom Wicker
Ruth Barnes Moynihan
Senator Gary Hart
John Seigenthaler, Sr.

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