These lectures are sponsored by the Herbert P. Lefler fund.

Dr. Jody Benjamin

Fall 2025 Lefler Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 5:15 pm

Dr. Jody Benjamin, Associate Professor of History, Howard University

Title: TBD



Dr. Julie Reed smiling at the camera wearing a dark crew neck shirt
Dr. Julie Reed

Winter 2026 Lefler Lecture

Date: TBD

Dr. Julie Reed, Associate Professor of Native American and American History, Penn State University

Title: TBD



Questions? Contact Prof. Victoria Morse, History Department Chair


“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”

— James Baldwin, “The White Man’s Guilt,” Ebony Magazine, August 1965