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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 21st Athearn Lecture
Dr. Miller is Director of the Environmental Analysis program and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. |
| Lecture | Lecturer | Affiliation | Title of Lecture |
| 21st | Char Miller | Pomona College | "Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio, 1921-1978" |
| 20th | Ramón A. Gutiérrez | University of Chicago | "The Religious Thought of Reies López Tijerina and the Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement" |
| 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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