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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).
Professor Athearn 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 24th Athearn Lecture
Information not yet available. Please check back in Fall 2012.
Previous Athearn Lectures:
| Lecture |
Lecturer |
Affiliation |
Title of Lecture |
| 23rd |
Mae M. Ngai |
Columbia University |
"The True Story of Ah Jake: Language and Justice in Nineteenth-Century California" |
| 22nd |
William F. Deverell |
University of Southern California |
"To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds:" The American West After the Civil War |
| 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
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"The West As Home" |
| 16th |
Alan Taylor |
Univ. of California, Davis
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"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
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"'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
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"From 'Freedom Now' to 'Black Power:' The
Civil Rights Movement in Seattle, 1960-1970" |
| 8th |
Donald E. Worster |
Univ. of Kansas
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"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
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"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
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"The Question of Violence in the American
Revolution" |
| 2nd |
William Elliot West |
Univ. of Arkansas
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"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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