Massey Lectures (Harvard University)
Encyclopedia
The William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization is a series of public lecture
s held every one or two years at Harvard University
since 1984. They are sponsored by the university's Program in the History of American Civilization. They were endowed by an anonymous donor in honor of William E. Massey, former president of the A.T. Massey Coal Company
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Public lecture
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s held every one or two years at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
since 1984. They are sponsored by the university's Program in the History of American Civilization. They were endowed by an anonymous donor in honor of William E. Massey, former president of the A.T. Massey Coal Company
Massey Energy
Massey Energy Company was a coal extractor in the United States with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. By revenue, it was the fourth largest producer of coal in the United States and the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia...
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Lecturers
- 1984 - Eudora WeltyEudora WeltyEudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...
One Writer's Beginnings - 1986 - Irving HoweIrving HoweIrving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Life and career:...
The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson - 1988 - Lawrence W. LevineLawrence W. LevineLawrence William Levine was an American historian. He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California.-Life:...
Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America - 1988 - Conor Cruise O'BrienConor Cruise O'BrienConor Cruise O'Brien often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish politician, writer, historian and academic. Although his opinion on the role of Britain in Northern Ireland changed over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, he always acknowledge values of, as he saw, the two irreconcilable traditions...
God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism - 1990 - David Brion DavisDavid Brion DavisDavid Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a...
Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations - 1992 - Toni MorrisonToni MorrisonToni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination - 1992 - Gore VidalGore VidalGore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
Screening History - 1994 - Eugene D. GenoveseEugene D. GenoveseEugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the...
The Southern Tradition - 1995 - Alfred KazinAlfred KazinAlfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....
Writing Was Everything - 1996 - Stephen L. CarterStephen L. CarterStephen L. Carter is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.-Education:...
The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty - 1997 - Richard RortyRichard RortyRichard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University...
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America - 1999 - Andrew DelbancoAndrew DelbancoDr. Andrew H. Delbanco is Director of American Studies at Columbia University and has been Columbia's Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities since 1995...
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope - 2000 - Maxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...
To Be The Poet - 2003 - E.L. Doctorow Reporting the Universe
- 2004 - Robert VenturiRobert VenturiRobert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century...
and Denise Scott BrownDenise Scott BrownDenise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia...
Architecture as Signs and Systems: For A Mannerist Time - 2004 - John Demos Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America
- 2005 - Jayati GhoshJayati GhoshJayati Ghosh was educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University , and the University of Cambridge. Her 1984 doctoral thesis at Cambridge University was titled "Non capitalist land rent: theories and the case of North India" under the supervision of Mr T Byres.She is now Professor of...
The Economics of the American Empire: Fierceness and Fragility - 2008 - Joan C. Williams Obama Eats Arugula: Reshaping the Electoral and Everyday Politics of Work and Family
- 2009 - Eric FonerEric FonerEric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery - 2011 - Sally MannSally MannSally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.-Early life and education:...
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