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The Robert G. Athearn Lecture Series The late Prof. Robert G. Athearn (1914-1983) was a professor of Western History at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1947 until his retirement in 1982. An extraordinarily productive scholar, his publications included Westward the Briton (1953), Union Pacific Country (1971) The Coloradans (1976), The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: Rebel of the Rockies (1977), The Mythic West in Twentieth Century America (1986), and William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West (reprint 1995). He was one of the founders as well as past president of the Western History Association, and during his career held numerous positions on historical committees, academic societies, and editorial boards. His impact as a teacher was equally great, he instructed thousands of undergraduate students over the years, and trained a score of contemporary Western historians in the profession he loved. As part of his legacy, Dr. Athearn endowed a lectureship in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder to be held on topics in Western history. The Department of History is pleased to present the 20th Athearn LectureRamón A. GutiérrezDr. Gutiérrez is Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. He previously taught at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Ethnic Studies department and its Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away (1991), and editor of six volumes, he is currently working on a study of the religious and political thought of Reyes López Tijerina, one of the leaders of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.
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| Lecture | Lecturer | Affiliation | Title of Lecture |
| 19th | John R. Wunder | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | "Challenges to History and the Murder of Brandon Teena." |
| 18th | James Brooks | School of American Research | "Friction: Conflict & Creativity in Our American Southwest" |
| 17th | Virginia Scharff | Univ. of New Mexico |
"The West As Home" |
| 16th | Alan Taylor | Univ. of California, Davis |
"Thomas Jefferson's Pacific: Making a Global West, 1763-1815" |
| 15th | David Gutierrez | Univ. of California, San Diego |
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| 14th | Raymond DeMallie | University of Indiana |
"On Writing Lakota History" (In honor of Vine Deloria's retirement) |
| 13th | Katherine Morrissey | Univ. of Arizona |
"Mining Stories: Environmental Conflicts in the 20th Century Rocky Mountain West." |
| 12th | Alan Bérubé | Author: Coming Out Under Fire |
"'No Race Baiting, Red-Baiting, or Queer Baiting!!' The Marine Cooks & Stewards Union from the Depression to the Cold War" |
| 11th | Duane A. Smith | Ft. Lewis College | "A Tale of Two Towns" |
| 10th | Peggy Pascoe | Univ. of Utah |
"'I belong to the white race I suppose:' Miscegenation Law, Appeals Court, and the Classification of 'Races' in the American West" |
| 9th | Quintard Taylor, Jr. | Univ. of Oregon |
"From 'Freedom Now' to 'Black Power:' The Civil Rights Movement in Seattle, 1960-1970" |
| 8th | Donald E. Worster | Univ. of Kansas |
"The Black Hills: Sacred or Profane?" |
| 7th | David Brion Davis |
Yale University | "Exodus, Colonization and Promised Lands" |
| 6th | John Mack Faragher | Mt. Holyoke College | "The Custom of the Country: Indian-White Marriages in the Trans-Mississippi" |
| 5th | Gordon Hirabayashi | Univ. of Alberta |
"Citizen or Non-Alien: An American Minority & the Constitution" |
| 4th | Howard Lamar |
Yale University | "The West and Frontier Violence: An Enduring Debate" |
| 3rd | John W. Shy | Univ. of Michigan |
"The Question of Violence in the American Revolution" |
| 2nd | William Elliot West | Univ. of Arkansas |
"Growing Up Western: Childhood on the Frontier" |
| 1st | Gale McGee | Former Senator, Wyoming | "The New Politics of the Old West: Wyoming 1950-1960 |
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