These lectures are sponsored by the Herbert P. Lefler fund.
Fall 2025 Lefler Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 5:15 pm
Dr. Jody Benjamin, Associate Professor of History, Howard University
Title: TBD
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