UMW 2024 Great Lives Lecture Lineup Announced
The 21st William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series features Biographical Approaches to History and Culture. This upcoming series includes a First Lady, a spymaster, a Marvel Comics legend, a Jazz Age bootleg king and many more known and unknown women and men of history.
There are all intriguing characters whose stories are bound to enlighten audiences of the University of Mary Washington’s hugely popular Great Lives series. Lectures will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from January through March 2024. All are open to the public free of charge and begin at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium of George Washington Hall.
The dates, topics, and speakers for the series are listed below.
| Jan. 16 | Wild Bill Donovan | Douglas Waller | |
| Jan. 18 | Lewis & Clark/Sacagawea | Dale Blanshan | |
| Jan. 23 | Shakespeare | Elizabeth Winkler | |
| Jan. 25 | George VI and Elizabeth | Sally Bedell Smith | |
| Jan. 30 | Sam Shepard | Jon Winters | |
| Feb. 6 | George Washington | Alexis Coe | |
| Feb. 8 | Mary Lumpkin: Enslaved Woman, Liberator | Kristen Green | |
| Feb. 15 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Jonathan Darman | |
| Feb. 20 | Picasso | Marjorie Och | |
| Feb. 22 | Stan Lee: Spider-Man and Marvel Comics | Bob Batchelor | |
| Feb. 27 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Jonathan Eig | |
| Feb. 29 | Rosemary Kennedy | Kate Clifford Larson | |
| Mar. 12 | Edith (Mrs. Woodrow) Wilson | Rebecca Roberts | |
| Mar. 14 | Billie Jean King | Johnette Howard | |
| Mar. 19 | Elizabeth Taylor | Kate A. Brower | |
| Mar. 21 | George Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby | Abbott Kahler | |
| Mar. 26 | Ten Caesars | Barry Straus | |
| Mar. 28 | Edgar Allan Poe | Mark Dawidziak |
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